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Peter’s Mother

CHAPTER VII
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But papa says he shall come and see me in London.

Aunt Elizabeth is going to take me to Paris and to Scotland, and abroad every winter." "Oh, Sarah, how you will be changed when you come back!" said Lady Mary; and she laughed a little, with a hand on Sarah's shoulder; but Sarah knew that Lady Mary was not thinking very much about her, all the same.
"There is no fresh news, John ?" she asked.
"Nothing since my last telegram," he answered.

"But I have arranged with the Exchange Telegraph Company to wire me anything of importance during my stay here." "You are always so good," she said.
Then he took pity on Sarah's impatience, and left the little worshipper to the interview with her idol which she so earnestly desired.
"I will go and pay my respects to my cousins," said John.
But the banqueting-hall was deserted, and gaps in the row of clogs and goloshes suggested that the old ladies were taking a morning stroll.
They had not thought it proper to drive, save in a close carriage, since their brother's death; and on such a warm day of spring weather a close carriage was not inviting to country-bred people..


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