Excerpt: ...and dreaming of the future day when fame should come to her, when she heard her mother's voice outside. "Polly! Polly! are you there?" "Yes, I'm here," answered Polly, moving across the room to open the door, with a secret hope that her mother would see that she had been crying, and ask the reason of her tears. But Mrs. Adams was too intent on the matter in hand to give more than a passing glance at her daughter. "Polly, Aunt Jane wants you to run down to Mrs. Hapgood's and ask her if she can't take in some ...
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Excerpt: ...and dreaming of the future day when fame should come to her, when she heard her mother's voice outside. "Polly! Polly! are you there?" "Yes, I'm here," answered Polly, moving across the room to open the door, with a secret hope that her mother would see that she had been crying, and ask the reason of her tears. But Mrs. Adams was too intent on the matter in hand to give more than a passing glance at her daughter. "Polly, Aunt Jane wants you to run down to Mrs. Hapgood's and ask her if she can't take in some ministers next week, over the convention. She would like her to take four, if she can." "Oh dear!" grumbled Polly. "I do wish Aunt Jane would go on her own old errands, and not keep me running all over town for her." "Polly dear," Mrs. Adams's tone was very gentle; "Polly, aren't you forgetting yourself a little?" "No, I'm not," returned Polly rebelliously. "I hate Aunt Jane." "Polly!" This time there was no mistaking her mother's meaning. After an instant, she added, - "I wish you to go at once, my daughter, and to go pleasantly. Aunt Jane is a good, kind aunt to you." Polly raised her eyebrows, but dared not speak; "and I am sorry you are so ungrateful as not to be willing to do this little errand for her." Polly turned away and obediently started on her errand, but as she went down the stairs, her mother heard her murmuring to herself words that were not altogether complimentary to Aunt Jane and the coming ministers. It was one of the days when everything went wrong, Polly said to herself as she went out of the gate and down the silent street. Molly had laughed at her, Aunt Jane had abused her, and, worst of all, her mother had spoken to her more seriously than she had done for a long time. That was the way it generally was with geniuses, she thought, and reflected with a vindictive joy that some day or other they would all be sorry for it. At this point she was interrupted by hearing her name called in boyish tones, - "Polly! Polly! I say, ...
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