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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 33

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dim recollec-tion of a bright face and airy figure and soft float- ing garments that smelled of violets. What she saw,as she stood in the Boston and Albany depot, thenext day, was a little woman not so tall as herself,in a close-fitting, wood-colored traveling dress, withnothing bright about her… … \ND THIS GREAT GIRL IS MV LITTLE LOITSE ! And this great girl is my little Louise ! Louise looked up — no, down — into the loveli-est great dark eyes she had ever seen, and sawthat the red silk knot was not the only brightnessabout this little mother. In another moment, asshe felt herself enfolded…

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