A Lesson Before Dying
“I went onto the porch and told her that my aunt was in the back. Miss Eloise, tall and thin, stood in the road, leaning on her bamboo walking stick. She wore a long black overcoat and a black hat with a white band. She was looking up the quarter. She said she thought there was a new chill in the air, and I agreed with her. While she waited for my aunt, she continued to look up the quarter, toward the church. I didn’t feel like standing out on the porch, but I thought it would be rude to go insi...de and leave her in the road with no one to talk to.I heard my aunt come into the house from the backyard. She was in her room only a moment before she walked out on the porch. She wore the black coat over a black dress, white stockings, and low-heeled black shoes.“Hey, there, Elou,” she called.“Hey,” Miss Eloise called back. She really stretched it out. “Haaaaaaaay.”“Ain’t been waiting too long, I hope,” my aunt said.“Just getting here,” Miss Eloise said.“Be sure you shut them doors if you leave from here,”MoreLess
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