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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 606

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JB fy. Virtue ofPhebesWit. jbx Alice Balch Abbot HEBE, what are you doing?You will ruin your eyes! AndFlora Winston, hastily crossingthe library to the window-seatwhere her younger sister wasbending almost double over pa-per and pencil, seized the shade and … sent it with a snap to its utmost height,thereby letting in the last of the sunset glow. You were reading, too, said Phebe, un-certainly. Yes; but I stopped long ago, Flora an-swered. Where are your wits? It is toodark to read now without a light. Phebe straightened up. I know it is toodark, but I…

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