Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 403
y, that fewer people might begoing and coming from town, and that even these mightnot stop to buy flowers. He did not want to discourageher; he simply wanted to prepare her for disappoint-ment. But Hope was not doomed to disappointment inthis direction. The succeeding days proved both pleas-ant and… … How Hope Earned Her Fiddle 345 crease in her sales, there was something very unpleas-ant for Hope to bear, — something that she had notin the least looked for, because she had never beforemet with anything like it. It was on Wednesday that a little party of girlscame hurrying into the Brookside…
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