Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 494
e and see if anything else happens. There was silence outside the wall. Allegrahad listened with languid interest to the childrensprattle. Now she found herself wondering who IQI4-] THE LUCKY STONE 317 they were, especially the little girl with thestrange voice who talked so intimately about… … There was a moment of astonished silence.Then a whoop of joy answered her. The boy atleast appreciated the omen. Oh, Bess! said the eager voice of Maggie,she is there. I felt she was. It is fairy candy!Did you ever see the like of it? No! whispered Bess, rapturously, I neverdid. Aint it lovely !…
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