Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm |
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Author:
| Wiggin, Kate Douglas |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-54056-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child, Miranda had said as she folded Aure- lia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. I s'posed, of course, Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill A DIFFERENCE IN HEARTS I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child, Miranda had said as she folded Aure- lia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. I s'posed, of course, Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else. You remember we said that Rebecca or even Jenny might come, in case Hannah could n't, interposed Jane. I know we did, but we had n't any notion it would turn out that way, grumbled Miranda. She was a mite of a thing when we saw her three years ago, ventured Jane; she's had time to improve. And time to grow worse Won't it be kind of a privilege to put her on the right track ? asked Jane timidly. I don' know about the privilege part; it 'll be considerable of a chore, I guess. If her mother hain't got her on the right track by now, she won't take to it herself all of a sudden. This depressed and depressing frame of mind had lasted until the eventful day dawned on which Rebecca was to arrive. If she makes as much work after she comes as she has before, we might as well give up hope of ever gettin' any rest, sighed Miranda as she hung the dish towels on the barberry bushes at the side door. But we should have had to clean house, Rebecca or no Rebecca, urged Jane; and I can't see why you 've scrubbed and washed and baked as you have for that one child, nor why you 've about bought out Watson's stock of dry goods. I know Aurelia if you don't, responded Miranda. I 've seen her house, and I 've seen that batch o' children, wearin' one another's clothes and never carin' whether they had 'em on right sid' out or not; I know what they 've had to live and dress on, and so do you. That child will like as not c...