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The English Orphans

CHAPTER XIV
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Still she is a good sort of a woman, and it is well enough to have some such nice place to visit and get fruit.

Weren't those delicious berries, and ain't these splendid rosebuds ?" "I guess, though," said Jenny, glancing at her mother's huge bouquet, "Mrs.Mason didn't expect you to gather quite so many.

And Rose, too, trampled down a beautiful lily without ever apologizing." "And what if I did ?" retorted Rose.

"She and that girl have nothing to do but fix it up." This allusion to Mary, reminded Mrs.Campbell of her conversation with Mrs.Mason, and laughingly she repeated it.

"I never knew before," said she, "that Mrs.Mason had so much spirit.


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