`` We 've had good times together ; but I think we 'll have lots more splendid years ahead . '' `` Eden is always behind us -- Paradise always before , '' said Uncle Blair , coming up in time to hear her . He said it with a sigh that was immediately lost in one of his delightful smiles . `` I like Uncle Blair so much better than I expected to , '' Felicity confided to me . `` Mother says he 's a rolling stone , but there really is something very nice about him , although he says a great many things I do n't understand . I suppose the Story Girl will have a very gay time in Paris . '' `` She 's going to school and she 'll have to study hard , '' I said . `` She says she 's going to study for the stage , '' said Felicity . `` Uncle Roger thinks it is all right , and says she 'll be very famous some day . But mother thinks it 's dreadful , and so do I. '' `` Aunt Julia is a concert singer , '' I said . `` Oh , that 's very different . But I hope poor Sara will get on all right , '' sighed Felicity . `` You never know what may happen to a person in those foreign countries . And everybody says Paris is such a wicked place . But we must hope for the best , '' she concluded in a resigned tone . That evening the Story Girl and I drove the cows to pasture after milking , and when we came home we sought out Uncle Blair in the orchard . He was sauntering up and down Uncle Stephen 's Walk , his hands clasped behind him and his beautiful , youthful face uplifted to the western sky where waves of night were breaking on a dim primrose shore of sunset . `` See that star over there in the south-west ? '' he said , as we joined him . `` The one just above that pine ?
An XXXXX star shining over a dark pine tree is the whitest thing in the universe -- because it is LIVING whiteness -- whiteness possessing a soul .
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