A SOUL THAT WAS NOT AT HOME by LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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This well-written but controversial short story involves a wealthy woman who finds an 11 year old boy by the seashore and, finding that he has no mother or father, talks the old man who raised him into letting the boy be raised by her so he can attend fine schools and have a better life. This story drives reviewers wild due to the woman's brazenness and the old man's decision to let the boy go, but I add it for its literary quality.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales this is your host John |
| 0:34.5 | Haggadorn today a short story from one of my favorite female authors Lucy Maud |
| 0:39.4 | Montgomery the title a soul that was not at home and now our story The title, A Soul That Was Not at Home. |
| 0:44.0 | And now our story. |
| 0:47.0 | There was a very fine sunset on the night Paul and Miss Trevor first met, |
| 0:52.0 | and she had lingered on the |
| 0:53.7 | headland beyond Noel's Cove to delight in it. The west was splendid in |
| 0:58.8 | daffodil and rose. Away to the north there was a mackerel sky of little fiery golden clouds and across the water |
| 1:06.0 | straight from Miss Trevor's feet ran a sparkling path of light to the sun, whose remit just touched |
| 1:12.0 | the throbbing edge of the purple sea. |
| 1:15.0 | Off to the left were softly swelling violet hills, |
| 1:18.0 | and beyond the sandjure, where little waves were crisping and silvering, |
| 1:22.0 | there was a harbor where scores of slender |
| 1:23.8 | mast were nodding against the gracious horizon. Miss Trevor sighed with sheer happiness |
| 1:30.3 | in all the wonderful, fleeting, elusive loveliness of sky and sea. |
| 1:36.0 | Then she turned to look back at Noel's Cove, dim and shadowy in the gloom of the tall |
| 1:40.3 | headlands, and she saw Paul. It did not occur to her that he could be a |
| 1:45.6 | shore boy. She knew the shore type too well. She thought his coming |
| 1:50.5 | mysterious for she was sure he had not come along the sand, and the tide was too high |
| 1:55.2 | for him to have come past the other headland. Yet, there he was, sitting on a red sandstone |
| 2:01.4 | boulder with his bare bronzed shapely little legs crossed in front of him |
| 2:06.0 | and his hands clasped around his knee. He was not looking at Miss Trevor but at the sunset, |
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