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A Girl Of The Limberlost

CHAPTER II
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I want her to look just like you do.

Please tell me about your clothes.

Are these the dresses and hats you wear to school?
What kind of goods are they, and where do you buy them ?" The girls began to laugh and cluster around Margaret.

Wesley strode down the store with his head high through pride in her, but his heart was sore over the memory of two little faces under Brushwood sod.

He inquired his way to the shoe department.
"Why, every one of us have on gingham or linen dresses," they said, "and they are our school clothes." For a few moments there was a babel of laughing voices explaining to the delighted Margaret that school dresses should be bright and pretty, but simple and plain, and until cold weather they should wash.
"I'll tell you," said Ellen Brownlee, "my father owns this store, I know all the clerks.


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