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Kitty Trenire

CHAPTER VII
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"Oh, how lovely! Thank you _so_ much, Mrs.Henderson.

I'll keep it always, and 'tend to it myself every day.

I have never had a plant of my own before, and I shall love it," and Betty took her rose in her arms and hugged it in pure joy.
"You have made Betty very happy now, Mrs.Henderson," said Kitty, without a trace of envy in her heart.

"Thank you for all you have done for us.

Good-night." "Good-night, and thank you for our fine tea," said Dan, and one by one they passed out of the scented garden, and on their homeward way.
A soft evening mist was creeping slowly up over the river and the sloping meadow; the distant woods looked desolate, and almost awesome.
Kitty could nut picture them now peopled as they had been in the morning, and her efforts to do so were soon interrupted by a little piteous voice beside her.
"My feets do hurt me," said Tony plaintively.


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