Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 411
The ash-girl had laughed and blushed,through all the dirt upon her face and under thetangled mass of hair that hung over it, for shethought the lady had smiled at her too, and shehad never before caught a look of so much lovefrom anybody. A few minutes afterward, the ladyhad come out upon the… … stood first on one bare foot, then on the other,clasped and unclasped her hands, brushed her hairaway from her eyes, pulled off her hood, swung itto and fro, wound the strings around her wrists,and did not know at all what she was about. Butthe lady had only said, Come, my darlings ! toher…
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