Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 522
the stone lilies carvedover the entrance, and making the deer in thepark gleam like spots of bright gold. When my father found that I had outgrowncrying for the moon only to begin crying forthe sun (a perfectly natural course of things, bythe way) he was very angry; he would notlisten to me at all,… … when I could getpermission to do so,and knew what it waslike; so I felt that Icould find better sportoutside since I hadgrown up. I was the leaderof the young knightsin the neighborhood,and I laid the case before them. We decidedthat as the life had been very tame at home formany years, and as all…
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