Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 428
, standing in the middle of thedusty road, the only guardian of the spot—ah ! i883.] A BRAVE CHINESE BABY 409 he was not so brave as we had thought. Allthis time he had been struggling with himself,with a terror that had been slowly getting theupper hand of him. In the twinkling of an eye,without a… … think ; if we drew nearer him, he cried harder.We put some money in his hand; as we did so,he partially stopped crying. We thought it wasthe money that had soothed him, and we said,Ha! young as he is, he is old enough to havegrief healed by gain. But we were mistaken. Itwas not the money. He had…
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