Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-26
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| ade him. The figure was that Of girl 8
rnrs old perhaps, but smnll and frnil. she
wore an enormous sunbOnnot that might
h.,e been made for the wife Of tho pinnt
Bupderborc, so out Of proportion was 1t to
,he diminutiyo wearor, and out of its
d.u,hs pcorcd a thin little facc, with big,
tlrhtencd brown Dyes. Her clothing was
"a clean and ueat that Que scarcely noticed
how very poor 1t was, and as she stared up
into the terrible face above her ono OF tho
title feet wrigqlcd uncaslly in the depths
tithe costly rug.
III You please sir, mother said to tell
,ou TINT she couldn't come up today DO.
cause she's sick.
The childish treble was little shaken
his time, for the shaggy eyebrows were
,ery close TO her, and thoy Fnyo the old
rentleman look that was terrible beyond
belief.
He was in dreadful temper, this crus.
N old gentleman, and nothing made him
snsrier than for poor people to get into his
house. He hntcd the sight Of poverty, and
oil bis servants bud special orders to guard
tho doors and tho gates and to sec that no
moan OF WOO or want ever reached his
ears. And yet, after ali, this little boggar
bad slipped past the bolts and bar into
his very study, where his own servants
scarcely dared to enter.
don't know what dreadful thing might
have happened II 1t Ind not been for that
one little word "inothcr" in tho child's
futtering speech. Children SO seldom
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"%en'hs MN go nus ,n, 80, .nu "ol'u
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'narpy,
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wy l:p snuuiu sle ooi,e mctel ,
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have message to send to your mother
a., rang ,ao oell Vioiontiy anu oruore'
wa. ATS murray DO sent TO MN as soon
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4 $500 ~. lnolheh,' out no uiu nh"iiS e'o
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,,r,a wac siiehuo IN inc room Ior ions
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,,osr euuiu not endure inc tiching oi
sh,sas, Nut ioni stirred hot crlchoe
l,', ino stiiihess ulsturDeu MN ~
N -, aIu ne looked up. Inc chiiu was OUT
halns,,nS,s.i o palcony, leaning on tne STONE
sra ~, her nonhet nau iallch on,
L,or, suuhsht' iatins on INC mass VI
Ara,n "' WoVe IL iuii oi gloanhs OF goiu.
was ,oF tpueh on ms hrm-there sne
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nav ' olu gentleman In tho armenian hau
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~ aV her ana forgot 10 say anything
rim !, No Always whntcd TO i've Oh
M, .. yVhucr and you can't SOC awning
Is,. "o houses across tho street but up
s,a you can look so far, and the sky's so
be ~. ). yuu' Don't you think people can
T t wheh thvy I'VE on hiIlf
ana =, newspaper irli TO tho hoor ulheedon'
A. w. a'o orusly old gentleman and tho NJ
.m @ looked at ono another. After
eunv we ON gentleman went 10 inc pni'
sows siu ,d looked down to tho roofs OF ,ho
Inv e,1, houses In the narrow streets DO
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