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Carts full of hammers, pincers, and all sorts of iron tools, and men in gray shirts, with black caps on their heads. Some of the men had banners, with great black words, such as "Equal Rights," or something like them, in German; but of course Fly could not tell one letter from another. She only knew it was all very "homebly," in spite of the music.
Whether by virtue of her relationship to the minister or by her own virtue, she had learned to read human nature with a degree of accuracy. "I looked at myself in the glass tonight," confessed Rebecca Mary's diary, "but it was on acount of the rufles. I think Ime not quite so homebly in rufles. I think Aunt Olivia was kind to rufle me. I should like to ware this night gown in the day time.
Ive desided to say you needent alow but 4 if 5 is too mutch. If she alows Im going to buy me some crimpers. Rhodas curls natchurally but she says you can crimp it if it doesent. I have begun to look at myself in the glass and it fritens me I guess there ought to be a gh in that to see how homebly I am. I wonder if it doesent kind of scare Aunt Olivia.
How many times I've pushed you and Dotty in that swing when it seemed as if it would break my back!" Flyaway looked out. There stood the two trees, and between them hung the old swing; but the charm was forgotten. In the field beyond, her eye fell on an object more interesting to her. "O, O," said she, "I don't see how God could make a man so homebly as that!" "So homely as what?"
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