Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 466
TOM TOLD THEM THE WHOLE STORV. smileyour and said, Now, my boy, tell me alltrouble. And Tom told them the whole story, hishopes, his expectations, his success, his disap-pointment. While he was telling it, his mothersquick sympathy sustained and cheered him.And when he had told her everything, he… … FTER telling hismother and hissister the circum-stances and theresult of the questwhich had oc-cupied his mindfor six months andmore, Tom Paul-ding felt a littlebetter. Alreadyhe was able to bear the poignant disappoint-ment more bravely, and he tried to keepdown the bitterness he had felt at…
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