Mary Cary - "Frequently Martha" by Kate Langley Bosher
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and that the best wedding present he could give you would be a set of
new teeth? And will you promise to stop pink powder and clean your finger-nails every day? And--" But I got no further, for something made me look up, and there, standing in the door, was the real Miss Bray. All I said was--"Let us pray!" VI "MY LADY OF THE LOVELY HEART" Beautiful gloriousness! Miss Katherine has come back! What a different place some people can make the same place! Yesterday there wasn't an interesting thing in Yorkburg. Nothing but dust and shabby old houses and poky people who knew nothing to talk about, and to-day--oh, to-day it's dear! I love it! You see, after that wedding everything went wrong. The girls said it wasn't fair for me to be punished so much more than the rest, and they wanted to tell the Board about it; but for once I agreed with Miss Bray. "I did it. I made it up and fixed everything, and you all just agreed," |
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