Esther - Hardback - 9781421809892

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.

• | Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
• | Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• | Publication Date: Feb 20, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 300 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1421809893
• | ISBN-13: 9781421809892