Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 147
iter of thatcomposition that in my judgment it was anuncommonly good one. It was well expressed,well read, and—best of all — it was original.We shall look for more some day from the pen of—of— she glanced at the list of names onthe board. She was coming to it! She would see it,—thequeer little… … you. the whole room — she stepped down from theplatform to Mary Anns seat, put both armsaround the little girl, and exclaimed, Mary Ann Bean ! Tell me, dear, where didyou get that name ? It was my grandmothers, faltered MaryAnn, apologetically, as one who would say, Idid nt choose it. Please dont…
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