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Updated: May 19, 2025
Polly was drying Peter's tears and endeavoring to clean his dirty face, while she admonished him gently. "Peter, you were so naughty. What will good Dr. Weston think of such a bad boy?" "He won't think a thing. He wouldn't like to be 'dopted hisself when his mother might come alive any time an' he'd be gone off with his name changed an' everything.
Gail says mother always did that when papa was out after night, so he could find his way home all right. I'll tell Allee and when we go to bed we'll just remind the angels that we don't need so much looking after now that we're living here. I'll never forget how s'prised Hec Abbott was when he found out that we'd all been 'dopted together. I wonder what Hec is doing about now?
Peter could be a big policeman and could bring all the little homeless babies here and I could wash them clean and curl their hair and get them ready to be 'dopted." One day shortly after they had moved to the Hathaway house a ringing of the front door bell heralded the advent of callers.
"Well, you see, da aint persackly brother an' sister." "No?" and the surgeon raised his heavy eyebrows as if in surprise. "No, sah. Massah Jack is only de 'dopted son ob de late colonel." "Ah, is that really so? A er nephew, perhaps?" "No, he aint no kin to de Ruthvens. He was washed ashoah from a wrack ten or 'leben years ago.
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