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...after he died. "The blanket had been thrown off and hung beside the bed; the sheets seemed clasped between his legs and wound about his body. There was something hideous in his immobility, which was not the repose of sleep." Soon after that morning Emily's grandmother, Mrs. Elliot, came to live at Ashley House, and through its wide dismantled rooms there passed whining draughts of greed & hatred...
...mother's arrival filled her with dread. "There was no true bond of affection between mother and daughter, and it is easy to surmise that they exchanged numerous letters before arriving at an agreement on a number of capital points, notably on the figure which Mrs. Elliot would concede as the price of her board and keep...
Before long, Mrs. Elliot became an invalid. She would call Emily into her room and the two of them would discuss Mrs. Fletcher. Emily was too weak to oppose her mother's economies that took, among other things, the form of selling the furniture and buying clothes at second-hand sales. Mrs. Elliot would push herself up in bed and stare at the pale, frightened child. "She clutched her granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing...
...cook to scrub the floors and bake the bread. The old invalid would lie upstairs, her mind full of a thin despair and a narrow, terrible enmity. At last, one afternoon, Emily came in to find her grandmother dead. Whether her mother had found the medicine which Mrs. Elliot had expected her to provide, could not be told. Perhaps she had discovered some drug to still the anger in that ancient twisted heart. Emily asked no questions. She looked at her mother with fury and fear; but whatever Mrs. Fletcher commanded, Emily accomplished...
...Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately the tiny group of actresses who make the theatre a land of wonder, tears & pure delight. Ably seconding her acts is Elliot Cabot, Harvard graduate, who has, in the past, often been cast unprepos-sessingly as a frothy ne'er-do-well. Herein he plays a rough villager with whom the fickle lady of the play falls surpassingly in love. Her southern family storm; and her father shoots the villager...