Esther

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - I was always sorry that my name was Esther; not that I found fault with the name itself but it was too grave too full of meaning for such an insignificant person. Some one who was learned in such matters - I think it was Allan - told me once that it meant a star or good fortune. It may be so but the real meaning lay for me in the marginal note of my Bible: Esther fair of form and good in countenance that Hadassah who was brought to the palace of Shushan the beautiful Jewish queen who loved and succored her suffering people; truly a bright particular star among them. Girls even the best of them have their whims and fancies and I never looked at myself in the glass on high days and holidays when a festive garb was desirable without a scornful protest dumbly uttered against so shining a name.