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Mildred's Inheritance - Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way by Annie Fellows Johnston
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pay your board in the room next to mine for two weeks. Maybe there
will be enough to get the material for a simple evening gown, and
you can make it while you are here, or at home. It depends on
whether you go first to Mrs. Avery or to me. Write to her at once,
please, so that I may know when to expect you.

"Oh, my dear child, you do not know the unalloyed pleasure I have
already had in anticipating not only your visit to me, but your
good times in Washington. I feel that your enjoyment of the outing,
which I would have enjoyed so intensely at your age, will, in a
way, compensate me for my starved, unsatisfied girlhood, and I am
sure you are too generous to refuse me the pleasure.

"Enclosed you will find the check and a card on which I have
written all necessary directions as to railroad connections,
time-tables, etc."

* * * * *

No girl of fifteen could have been more enthusiastic in her rapturous
expressions of delight than Judith, as she danced into her mother's
room, waving the check. Amy looked on in amazement.

"I didn't know that sister could get so excited," she said to her
mother, afterwards.

"It is the first great pleasure she has ever had," said Mrs. Windham,
with a sigh. "It means far more to her than a trip to Europe would to
Marguerite. We all must help her to make the most of it."

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