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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 148

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ng, and Idid nt like to ask people for nickels, and thechilds voice broke into a little wail of entreatythat touched the kind heart of that noble, ten-der, loving woman, the Margaret whom someto-day call Saint Margaret. She had heard justsuch pitiful stories before from hundreds ofhapless orphans,… … lady jane, clinging to the railing, lookedand looked. says that Mamma s gone away, and I thinkshe s gone where Papa is. Margarets eyes filled with tears, while thechild shivered and clung closer to her. Wouldyou like to stay here to-night, my dear ? sheasked as she opened the door; this is thehome…

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