Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 179
ybe it was forsetting the example that he first took up such anotion ; for everybody knew how much he gaveto the good cause, and that his going so, year afteryear, was but willing self-denial and nothing else.If all other rich people had done the like,— wear-ing the old clothes and giving the new… … THE ULD COAT. coat got worse and worse,— faded and patched andmean-looking, — whilst all the time Nancy and Iwere getting older and more high-notioned, till wehated the sight of it more every day. Perhaps we needed a take-down to our pride,for we were mightily set up (as was more common with…
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