New Britain herald., 1928-11-12
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 The little yellow house never showed its true dtnginess because Mrs. Milburn refused to let anyone sec 1t. Her love transformed it to a aiming palace where sacrificing devotion made everything out of nothing. Emmy. the only daughter. wanted to lift herself from the sor- didness of the little street she lived in. to the heights where she felt she properly belonged. After a party given by her rich cousin. Marianna, she resolved to better herself some day. Meantime she took a business course. paid for by Grandmother Pentland. and snubbed. as well as she could. Robb. the boy down the street, who worked in a mill. and who represented the life she deter mined never to let herself sink into. One day Emmy met once more the man who looked like Robb. She re- membered their frs. meeting at the ice skating rink. He had taken her home. Her mother had said. Never make yourself even a little cheap and common, Emmy" Emmy learns that the man is going with her cousin. Marianna. Robb again tells Emmy that he loves her.
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 CHAPTER XXI1
 Robb picked up his hat and over coat from the chair where he had laid them. There was look that was neither sullenness nor anger in his face.
 "Robb, you're cross!" Emmy said. putting both her hands on his shoulders. "Just because I asked you to be friends - just because l asked you to be sensible"
 He gave her one straight look from his dark eyes.
 What's the use of pretending?" he asked bluntly. we can't be friends. At least l can't. Emmy. I'm in love with you, don't you un- derstand?" He was standing close 10 her and she could feel how he trembled.
 'I don't know what you want" he said. You tell me you won't marry . poor man and live in Flower street. Now. l come to you with new job and plenty of money to take you out of Flower street, and still you won't say you'll marry me. You want me to be 'sensible'-" His voice broke on groan. and before she could stop him he was gone.
 The front door slammed behind him.
 I'm sorry Robb couldn't stay for supper" said Mrs. Milburn. coming out of the dining room. Behind her tho round table was set with the whitest of tablecloths and decorated with the tiniest of Christmas trees. But I'm glad you've patched up your quarrel with him. It's nice to have him around the house again. With Perry married and your father and Dan gone 50 much. the place does get a bit lonely sometimes. We'll. I suppose you'll be the next one to marry and go. Emmy She sighed.
 "Yes. I'll be the next one to go," Emmy thought. going up the stairs, but 1t won't be because I'm get ting married!"
 Outside the windows of her small white bedroom the stars winked and blinked. Robb had said she was like them :. Far above him.
 I'm not" Emmy said to herself, with her eyes on them. I'm not half as fine as he is.''
 She was full of twisted feelings about him. But she had no doubt of his fineness. Brought up in an orphan asylum in Pearl street. he had started life in the lowliest of jobs at Mir. Tello's woolen mill. He had studied nights, he had worked hard, and he had made something of himself, with TO one to help him go straight ahead.
 She knew that. But she ,'asn't sure that ahe wanted him. She was pretty sure that she did not want him.
 She wanted things. Things that the wife of two-hundred-dollars month man never could have. Never.
 "Robb hasn't enough to offer me. That's the long and short of it," she summed 1t up.
 And, standing :here at the small white-curtained window, her grand ] mothers words seemed to write | themselves once more in the stars 1