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Polly Oliver’s Problem

CHAPTER XVII
7/11

She will be here next year.
Oh, how the little plan broadens out!" "And, Polly, you have chosen to pay for your circulars, and propose to buy your sand-table.

This I agree to, if you insist upon it; though why I shouldn't help my godchild I cannot quite understand.

But knowing you were so absorbed in other matters that you would forget the frivolities, and remembering that you have been wearing the same two dresses for months, I have ventured to get you some pretty gowns for the 'story hours,' and I want you to accept them for your Christmas present.

They will serve for all your 'afternoons' and for our home dinners, as you will not be going out anywhere this winter." "Oh, how kind you are, Mrs.Bird! You load me with benefits, and how can I ever repay you ?" "You do not have to repay them to me necessarily, my child; you can pass them over, as you will be constantly doing, to all these groups of children, day after day.

I am a sort of stupid, rich old lady who serves as a source of supply.


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