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Updated: May 24, 2025
"I will if you'll tell your father or Doctor Lavendar. I don't care which." "Neither!" said the girl. She got on her feet and stood looking down at little shabby Miss Lydia sitting on the step with her black frizette tumbling forward over one frightened blue eye. Then she covered her face with those soft, trembling hands, all dimpled across the knuckles. "Carl wanted to tell.
Miss Sampson's little house was more comfortable than it used to be; the quarterly check which came from "some one" patched up leaky roofs, and bought a new carpet, and did one or two other things; but it did not procure any luxuries, either for Johnny or for herself, and it never made Miss Lydia look like anything but a small, bedraggled bird; her black frizette still got crooked and dipped over one soft blue eye, and she was generally shabby except on the rare occasions when she wore the blue silk and her parlor always looked as if a wind had blown through it.
Coey, who was rather pretty in the white kitten style, had sparse pale hair, never properly combed over her "water fall," as she called it, which obtruded itself like a crow's nest. This attractive peculiarity was more apparent than ever to-day, the frizette having been caught by a bough in the woods.
She looked so little and pretty, lying there in her bed, with her soft white hair the frizette had vanished some years ago parted over her delicate furrowed brow, and her blue eyes wide and frightened, like a child's, that Johnny suddenly hugged her. "As for the name part of it," he said, "I said my name was Smith. Not handsome or distinguished, but my own.
"Good good evening," she said, in a whisper. Miss Lydia, her frightened eyes peering at her caller from under that black frizette, could hardly speak herself. Mary was the one to get herself in hand first. "May I come in, Miss Sampson?" "Why, yes " said Miss Lydia, doubtfully, and dusted her floury hands together. "I came to say," Mary began, following her back to the kitchen, "I came "
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