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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 567

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home; and emotion, with her, always took theform of gruffness. No need to set about kissing to-night, shesaid, as Eyebright held up her face, I ma-comin round to see you off to-morrow. Then she, too, stalked away. Eyebright lookedafter her for a little while, then very slowly sheopened the… … WHERE, EVERY SUMMER,SWING HAD HUNG. maids, Wealthy hadbeen used to call them,because their rufflededges were so neatlytrimmed and pinked.There was the apple-tree crotch, where,every summer sinceshe could remember,her swing had hung.There was her ownlittle garden, bare nowand brown with thedead…

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