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Poor and Proud

CHAPTER V
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KATY VISITS MRS.

GORDON, AND GETS RID OF DR.

FLYNCH.
Katy gazed with wonder and admiration at the rich furniture of the house, and thought that perhaps her grandfather lived in as good style as Mrs.Gordon, and that she might some day go to Liverpool and be an inmate of just such a palace.

The door of the sitting-room was open, and she had an opportunity to look at all the fine things it contained.
She had never seen anything so luxurious before, and I must say that she regretted the poverty of her lot, which deprived her mother and herself of them.
All round the room hung pictures in costly frames.

Some of them were portraits; and one which hung over the mantelpiece directly before her, soon attracted her attention, and made her forget the soft divans, the beautiful carpet, and the rich draperies of the windows.


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