This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... V. WHAT BETTY SAYS. I THRUST my head in at the door, and saw Lucretia twisting up the soft yellow plaits of her hair before the cottage mirror on her dressingtable. "Theodore is coming up the walk," I said, "and Mr. Hamlin. Is n't it good luck that. Josephine has a headache and can't go?" "Why, Betty ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... V. WHAT BETTY SAYS. I THRUST my head in at the door, and saw Lucretia twisting up the soft yellow plaits of her hair before the cottage mirror on her dressingtable. "Theodore is coming up the walk," I said, "and Mr. Hamlin. Is n't it good luck that. Josephine has a headache and can't go?" "Why, Betty Greenleaf!" Lucretia exclaimed reproachfully. "Well," I returned, " I don't want her to be ill, of course; but you know yourself, Lucretia, that five is a horrid number, and I should have had to tag after, myself." "Why don't you dress?" Lucretia asked, lightly shaking out her blue lawn gown. "I can't tell what to wear," I answered dismally. "I had my pink muslin on yesterday, you know, when Bobby and I were caught in the thunder shower. Things always happen somehow to my gowns. I don't see why they never do to yours, Lucretia." "I am careful, I suppose," returned Lucretia, absently. She was sorry my gown was ruined, but she was very busy deciding whether to wear tiny gold bells or pink coral roses in her ears. "I suppose," I ventured, "that you could n't leave me at home, Lucretia?" "Of course not," replied my sister. "Go out to luncheon alone with two gentlemen! Who ever heard of such a thing?" She gave a final flutter before the glass and turned. "It is a pity your gray linen is so plain," she said; "but wear your cherry ribbons, and you won't look very ugly." With this consoling remark Lucretia tripped away, leaving me to rush through my toilet and hasten downstairs with an unbecomingly flushed face and the consciousness of being badly dressed. As I reached the hall, Aunt Jane beckoned me into the dining-room. On the table were a basket of cakes and a tray of tall glasses filled with pink shrub. "It was the rule your Aunt Caroline sent...
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