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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 137

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five carelessyears had ever known, I came in my dumb grief tofaithful Agnes, who understood and sympathized.Though I did not know it, my adored mother, whohad gone farther south in search of health, wasbattling courageously with death, lonely and heart-sick. I only knew that she was gone, and that… … a bit of LIFK. by MARY F.LIZABF.TH PliRKlNS, AGE II. on it each night when I knelt to say my prayerswith her understanding eyes gazing upon me. Dontcry, dear, they seemed to say, but pray that Imay come back to you. Kind Agnes did her best for me, and every onewas kind, but oh, I wanted my mother!…

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