Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 472
he just hoped there would be an awfulthunder-storm, so that the girls could nt come. But the gay morning sunshine blighted poorHettys hopes of a storm. Her mother camehome about noon, to be greeted with as warm HETTY MACDONALD S BIRTHDAY TARTY. 341 a welcome as if she had been gone a week.But Hetty… … SHE started off on her errand with the twins. nearly three oclock when her mother came up-stairs, where Hetty was studying her lessons. Hetty, she said, I wish you would —why, child, what have you put on your bestfrock for ? Hetty turned red, and the tears, so long keptback, sprang to her eyes. Oh,…
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