Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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"Yes. You told her she could be glad because other folks wasn't like her--all sick, you know." "Yes," nodded Pollyanna. "Well, the doctor can be glad because he isn't like other folks--the sick ones, I mean, what he doctors," finished Nancy in triumph. It was Pollyanna's turn to frown. "Why, y-yes," she admitted. "Of course that IS one way, but it isn't the way I said; and--someway, I don't seem to quite like the sound of it. It isn't exactly as if he said he was glad they WERE sick, but--You do play the game so funny, sometimes Nancy," she sighed, as she went into the house. Pollyanna found her aunt in the sitting room. "Who was that man--the one who drove into the yard, Pollyanna?" questioned the lady a little sharply. "Why, Aunt Polly, that was Dr. Chilton! Don't you know him?" "Dr. Chilton! What was he doing--here?" "He drove me home. Oh, and I gave the jelly to Mr. Pendleton, and--" |
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