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She saw the head, in ghastly decapitation, staring stiffly out from the cushions of the chill and funereal parlor sofa, and the small Minnie peering in to feast her eyes upon its blond and waxen beauty. "Here," she had said, "take this, and sew it on the head, so Minnie'll have something she can hold, at least." And she had wrapped a pink cambric, sawdust-stuffed body in with the head.
Why should Mother sit there and let them talk to me like that! One would think childhood had no limit unless it's matrimony!" This reminded her of her younger sister's airs of superior wisdom, and did not conduce to a pleasanter frame of mind. "With all their miserable little conventions and idiocies! And what 'they'll say, and 'they'll think'! As if I cared! Minnie'll be just such another!"
'A very old fishwife, said Arthur, 'who used to come her rounds to our door? Was she of kin to you? 'My mither, sir. Mony's the time I hae peepit out on the cuddie's back between the creels at the door of the braw house of Burnside, and mony's the bannock and cookie the gude lady gied me. My minnie'll no be living thae noo, he added, not very tenderly. 'I should fear not, said Arthur.
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