Esther: A Book for Girls (Classic Reprint)

What trifles vex one !I was always sorry that my name was Esther ;not that I found fault ivith 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 :E sther, 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.
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