Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 424
more favoring circumstancesof place and fortune, might have been trained intolovely golden curls like the childs who lived in thetall house opposite the Grubblings door, and who came,sometimes, to the long back-parlor windows, and un- Glory McWhirk 365 consciously shone into poor, unknown Glorys… … Glory grew moremore to justifyname. Do you think shedidnt know whatbeauty was, — thischild who never hada new or pretty gar-ment, but who worefrocks fadged upout of old, fadedbreadths of her mis-tresss dresses, andbonnets with brimscut off and topknots taken down, and coarse shoes, andstockings cut…
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