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She began to wish that she had not urged Miss Twining to send the book to Mr. Parcell. She even suggested making some errand to the house and asking, quite casually, of course, how they liked Miss Twining's book, but the little woman so promptly declared Polly should do nothing of the sort that the plan was given up at once. At the cordial invitation of Dr.
"I am so glad he likes them!" Miss Twining's delicate face grew pink with pleasure. "Oh, he does! He kept reading it seemed as if he couldn't lay it down till somebody called him. And when he got up he said, 'This is poetry I should like to see the woman who can write like that. She must be worth knowing." "Oh, Polly!" Miss Twining's eyes overflowed with happy tears.
Grace is having rheumatism. They couldn't go at present. Miss Twining's heart bothers her. She said she shouldn't dare attempt so long a walk again." "As the one the other day? That wasn't long for a well person." "But most of us are not well if we were we shouldn't be here." "I'll ask them all, anyway!" Polly insisted. "Can't we have our first meeting here in your room, Miss Nita?" "Certainly.
I think I wrote you about Miss Twining and her "resurrection." That night when Dr. Temple contradicted so emphatically what Dr. Gunnip had told her she says she felt as if she had been dead and buried all those dreadful weeks and had come back to life. Miss Crilly insists that if it hadn't been for Miss Twining's "martyrdom" we never should have had "spunk" enough to go to Mr.
We have delayed too long over these extracts, and though I am tempted to delay yet longer, so quaint is the contrast between Mary Twining's youthful and feminine pen and that of her critical biographer, I pass on to a time some months after her arrival home. Indeed, she writes little in the interval.
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