Chapter 36
GrandmotherGRANDMOTHER is very old, her face is wrinkled, and her
hair is quite white; but her eyes are like two stars, and they have
a mild, gentle expression in them when they look at you, which does
you good. She wears a dress of heavy, rich silk, with large flowers
worked on it; and it rustles when she moves. And then she can tell
the most wonderful stories. Grandmother knows a great deal, for she
was alive before father and mother—that's quite certain. She has a
hymn-book with large silver clasps, in which she often reads; and
in the book, between the leaves, lies a rose, quite flat and dry;
it is not so pretty as the roses which are standing in the glass,
and yet she smiles at it most pleasantly, and tears even come into
her eyes. "I wonder why grandmother look
