Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 419
ds in hers suddenly,with a little catch in her voice which was notquite a laugh nor yet wholly a sob,— oh, Dody,you know I would nt have let you, if I hadguessed, my dear ! If she had been radiant before, under herdrooping feathers, how much more radiantshe was now, with that tender brightness… … ON THE THRESHOLD STOOD THE PRESIDENT. that were in her shining up under all her prettysparkle ! The secretary would have hugged her on thespot, but the president retreated from her affec-tionate arms. We shall have to resign, you know, shesaid, dabbing briskly at her eyes. The girlswill never speak…
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