Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 197
carpet was kept distressinglybright by closed shutters six days out of the seven, and a general air of go-to-meeting solemnity per-vaded the room. Merry longed to make it prettyand pleasant, but her mother would allow of nochange there, so the girl gave up her dreams ofrugs and hangings, fine… … FACTORY. The dining-room was a very different place, forhere Merry had been allowed to do as she liked,yet so gradual had been the change, that she wouldhave found it difficult to tell how it came about.It seemed to begin with the flowers, for her fatherkept his word about the posy pots,. and…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · UNC Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 197](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/1024/ia-stnicholasserial72dodg-197-137.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial04dodg-438-268.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial82dodg-160-96.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial211dodg-375-333.webp)
![An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-stnicholasserial291dodg-303-314.webp)