The Wide, Wide World by Elizabeth Wetherell
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warm hood, or quilted bonnet. It was of dark blue silk, well
made and pretty. He saw with great satisfaction that it fitted Ellen well, and would protect her ears nicely; and having paid for it, and ordered it home, he and Ellen sallied forth into the street again. But he wouldn't let her thank him. "It is just the very thing I wanted, Sir," said Ellen; "Mamma was speaking about it the other day, and she did not see how I was ever to get one, because she did not feel at all able to go out, and I could not get one myself; I know she'll like it very much." "Would you rather have something for yourself or your mother, Ellen, if you could choose, and have but one?" "Oh, for Mamma, Sir," said Ellen "a great deal!" "Come in here," said he; "let us see if we can find anything she would like." It was a grocery store. After looking about a little, the old gentleman ordered sundry pounds of figs and white grapes to be packed up in papers; and being now very near home, he took one parcel and Ellen the other, till they came to the door of Green's Hotel, where he committed both to her care. "Won't you come in, Sir?" said Ellen. "No," said he, "I can't this time I must go home to dinner." "And shan't I see you any more, Sir?" said Ellen, a shade |
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