Excerpt: ... and my mother will not," repeated William Jaquith, slowly. "And there is no one else I can or will ask. Why can you not tell me, Mrs. Tree? I think you have no right to refuse me so much information." "Because I promised not to tell you!" cried Mrs. Tree. "There! don't speak to me, or I shall go into a caniption! If I had known, I never would have promised. I never made a promise yet that I wasn't sorry for. Dear me, Sirs! I wonder if ever anybody was so pestered as I am. "There! there's James Stedman. Call him ...
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Excerpt: ... and my mother will not," repeated William Jaquith, slowly. "And there is no one else I can or will ask. Why can you not tell me, Mrs. Tree? I think you have no right to refuse me so much information." "Because I promised not to tell you!" cried Mrs. Tree. "There! don't speak to me, or I shall go into a caniption! If I had known, I never would have promised. I never made a promise yet that I wasn't sorry for. Dear me, Sirs! I wonder if ever anybody was so pestered as I am. "There! there's James Stedman. Call him over here! and don't you speak a word to me, Willy Jaquith, but finish those plants, if you are ever going to." Obeying Jaquith's hail, Doctor Stedman, who had been for passing with a bow and a wave of the hand, turned and came up the garden walk. "Good morning, James Stedman," said Mrs. Tree. "You haven't been near me for a month. I might be dead and buried twenty times over for all you know or care about me. A pretty kind of doctor you are!" "What do you want of me, Mrs. Tree?" asked Doctor Stedman, laughing, and shaking the little brown hand held out to him. "I'll come once a week, if you don't take care, and then what would you say? What do you want of me, my lady?" "I don't want my bones crushed, just for the sake of giving you the job of mending them," said the old lady. "I'd as lief shake paws with a grizzly bear. You are getting to look rather like one, my poor James. I've always told you that if you would only shave, you might have a better chance
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b/w Frontis. Good+ No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" In cloth backed boards with gilt titling and floral cover decoration, 8vo, 282pp. (light shelfwear and rubbing to outer extremities).
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Good. 1902 assumed 1st edition. Slight fraying to edges/uncut pages modestly worn. Gold gilted page tops. Owner inscribed. Hinges in front just beginning to separate but holding fine. Strong and straight.
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Used-Good. Boston: Dana Estes & Company, published June 1902. 282 pages. 4 plates by Frank T. Merrill. 6.5 x 4.25", gold & blue stamped cloth spine & paper boards, top edge gilt, signed 'J.W.R. ' (Julia Ward Richards). Cover trifle rubbed, soiled, slightly shaken, VG.
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Very Good. Tall 16mo. 282 pp; frontis & 3 b/w illustrations. Light blue cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards, gilt lettering on spine & cover, top edge gilt. VG, previous owner name & date (1903) on front pastedown, front hinge cracked at half title page, corners rubbed, spine & front cover a bit soiled & rubbed. Signed decorated binding-J.W.R. Julia Ward Richards, the author's daughter.
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