Emily Of New Moon – L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery – Gece Kitaplığı

Emily walked rigidly downstairs before Ellen and into the parlour. Eight people were sitting around it and she instantly felt the critical gaze of sixteen stranger eyes. She looked very pale and plain in her black dress; the purple shadows left by weeping made her large eyes look too large and hollow. She was desperately afraid, and she knew it but she would not let the Murrays see it. She held up her head and faced the ordeal before her gallantly.