Phoebe
A Novel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Phoebe: A Novel

A clear but brief November day had ended. Though not yet six o'clock, the sky was almost without color, and a slender silver crescent just above the trees, almost as one looked, grew sharp and filled with light. A young girl, who was sitting at a window, with her fair, round cheek close against the pane, looking idly out at the falling leaves and the darkening landscape, lifted her head suddenly, and saw the new moon and started.

"Oh, mamma, it's over my left shoulder!" she exclaimed, petulantly. "What horrid ill-luck are we going to have It never fails. I hate to see it over my left shoulder."

The words she said chimed in uncomfortably with the thoughts of the lady whom she addressed.

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