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Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells
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PATTY FARNSWORTH.

"You see," Patty explained to Bill, as she read the letter to him, "it
may be she can't afford such a trip. But I didn't like to hint at that,
so I asked her to write me what she thinks about it. If she thinks she
can't spend so much money, then we can offer to get her ticket."

"Very thoughtful and very delicately done, my dearest. You have the
kindest heart a little blue-eyed girl ever possessed."

"Not entirely disinterested, though. I do want to have some of your
people under our roof,--and this is my first attempt. If it fails, I
shall look up some of your English relatives."

"Yes, we will do that some day. I'd like to round them up
myself. Mother's tales of her childhood home,--as retold me by my
father,--sounded delightful. They had old country estates, and--"

"And ancestral halls! Hung with old armour! Oh, Little Billee, what fun
to take Fleurette there! Portraits of her ancestors smiling down at her
from the oaken walls of the long picture gallery--"

"Patty, Patty! how you _do_ run on! I don't know that there are any
picture galleries at all."

"Oh, of course there are. They're bound to be there. And maybe a family
ghost! A spectre, that stalks the corridors when one of the family is
about to die--"

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