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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 180

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e — not he, I prom-ise you ; so we d only the vexation of seeing it lookworse than need have been, after all, besides beingscolded by Mrs. Becky for our carelessness. Now, it was in the fall of the year 1781, soonafter Nancys sixteenth birthday, when the dan- cing-school ball came off at Folkstown,… … THE TWO SISTERS. time we had of it, too,— war or no war,— and ourmaster was as elegant a French gentleman as everstepped a minuet. His name was Monsieur Tissot,and he had come to this country with GeneralLafayette in the year 1777, to help fight the Brit-ish. However, at the battle of Monmouth he…

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