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The White People (Paperback)
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The White People (Paperback)
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The White People By Frances Hodgson Burnett The White People (1920)
was a novella written in World War I by Frances Hodgson Burnett,
which details her beliefs on what happens after death. Perhaps the
things which happened could only have happened to me. I do not
know. I never heard of things like them happening to any one else.
But I am not sorry they did happen. I am in secret deeply and
strangely glad. I have heard other people say things-and they were
not always sad people, either-which made me feel that if they knew
what I know it would seem to them as though some awesome, heavy
load they had always dragged about with them had fallen from their
shoulders. To most people everything is so uncertain that if they
could only see or hear and know something clear they would drop
upon their knees and give thanks. That was what I felt myself
before I found out so strangely, and I was only a girl. That is why
I intend to write this down as well as I can. It will not be very
well done, because I never was clever at all, and always found it
difficult to talk. I say that perhaps these things could only have
happened to me, because, as I look back over my life, I realize
that it has always been a rather curious one. Even when those who
took care of me did not know I was thinking at all, I had begun to
wonder if I were not different from other children. That was, of
course, largely because Muircarrie Castle was in such a wild and
remote part of Scotland that when my few relations felt they must
pay me a visit as a mere matter of duty, their journey from London,
or their pleasant places in the south of England, seemed to them
like a pilgrimage to a sort of savage land; and when a
conscientious one brought a child to play with me, the little
civilized creature was as frightened of me as I was of it. My
shyness and fear of its strangeness made us both dumb. No doubt I
seemed like a new breed of inoffensive little barbarian, knowing no
tongue but its own.
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