Pollyanna Grows Up by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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be nice and different. Oh, you don't know how glad I am so soon that I
came! I knew I would be, anyway, just as soon as I found out you were YOU--that is, Miss Wetherby's sister, I mean. I love Miss Wetherby, so I knew I should you, too; for of course you'd be alike--sisters, so--even if you weren't twins like Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Peck--and they weren't quite alike, anyway, on account of the wart. But I reckon you don't know what I mean, so I'll tell you." And thus it happened that Mrs. Carew, who had been steeling herself for a preachment on social ethics, found herself, much to her surprise and a little to her discomfiture, listening to the story of a wart on the nose of one Mrs. Peck, Ladies' Aider. By the time the story was finished the limousine had turned into Commonwealth Avenue, and Pollyanna immediately began to exclaim at the beauty of a street which had such a "lovely big long yard all the way up and down through the middle of it," and which was all the nicer, she said, "after all those little narrow streets." "Only I should think every one would want to live on it," she commented enthusiastically. "Very likely; but that would hardly be possible," retorted Mrs. Carew, with uplifted eyebrows. Pollyanna, mistaking the expression on her face for one of dissatisfaction that her own home was not on the beautiful Avenue, hastened to make amends. "Why, no, of course not," she agreed. "And I didn't mean that the |
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