Excerpt: ... grew sunburnt. "She's ben deef ever sence she hed the scarlet-fever. Walk in," said the woman, by no means satisfied to let strangers get only the outside impression of her premises, and turning round to lead the way without waiting for a reply. "Come in, Prissy!" she bawled, illustrating her summons with what might be called a beckoning in broad capitals, done with the whole arm from finger-tips to shoulder, twice or thrice. Leslie followed over the threshold, and Prissy ran by like a squirrel, and perched ...
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Excerpt: ... grew sunburnt. "She's ben deef ever sence she hed the scarlet-fever. Walk in," said the woman, by no means satisfied to let strangers get only the outside impression of her premises, and turning round to lead the way without waiting for a reply. "Come in, Prissy!" she bawled, illustrating her summons with what might be called a beckoning in broad capitals, done with the whole arm from finger-tips to shoulder, twice or thrice. Leslie followed over the threshold, and Prissy ran by like a squirrel, and perched herself on a stool just under the bird-cage. "I wouldn't keep it if 't warn't for her," said Aunt Hoskins apologetically. She was Prissy's aunt, holding no other close domestic relation to living thing, and so had come to be "Aunt Hoskins" in the whole region round about, so far as she was known at all. "It's the only bird she can hear sing of a morning. It's as good as all outdoors to her, and I hain't the heart to make her do without it. I've done without most things, but it don't appear to me as if I could do without them. Take a seat, do." "I thank you, but my friends are waiting. I've brought something for Prissy, from Miss Craydocke at the hotel." And Leslie held out the package which Dakie Thayne, waiting at the door, had put into her hand as she came in. "Lawful suz, Prissy! if 't ain't another book!" cried the good woman, as Prissy, quick to divine the meaning of the parcel, the like of which she had been made accustomed to before, sprang to her aunt's side within hearing of her exclamation. "If she ain't jest the feelingest and thoughtfullest
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Reader copy. Fair to good condition. Peach colored binding with black trim and gold lettering. Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. All pages intact, slight binding separation inside cover. Soiling to back, no dust jacket.
Add this copy of A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life to cart. $12.50, very good condition, Sold by Dorley House Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hagerstown, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by Hurst & Co.
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Augustus Hoppin. Very Good. No Jacket. 12 vo. no date given (circa 1900, originally published 1866); green c w/red/green titles; pictorial inset on front; ownr's insc; 240 clean, unmarked pages.
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