Dear Daughter DorothyLittle, Brown and Company, 1901 - 190 pages |
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Page 117 - ... in return" won't do at all. I don't know anything to reprove you about. I don't know anything except to reprove you for your curious notion of offending me with a long letter. Nothing is pleasanter to me than to be offended in that way, & I shall reprove you very severely if you don't do it again. I shall be ever so much obliged to you if you will sit down now & proceed to offend me awfully. What was it I put on that envelop that suggested that Mrs. Beach was the principal of a boarding school?...
Page 125 - Monsieur," she said to the artist with a sad and benevolent smile, "I do not know how to thank you for the care you have taken. I have only that to offer you, preserve it as a memorial of your goodness and of my gratitude.