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Updated: May 6, 2025

'I won't say but I have my favorites amongst 'em, she told me t' other day, 'but they 're all beautiful to me as they can be! And she's made some kind o' pretty little frames for 'em all you know there's always a new fashion o' frames comin' round; first 't was shell-work, and then 't was pine-cones, and bead-work's had its day, and now she 's much concerned with perforated cardboard worked with silk.

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Queen's Twin and Other Stories