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Gritli’s Children

CHAPTER VII
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Don't you think so?
With a thousand kisses, Your niece, EMMA.
P.S.I have thought this very moment of the nicest plan of all.

In the vineyards here they put horrid looking figures, like men with red beards and arms stretched out, to frighten away the birds.

If you will send me some red stuff and some yellow, I can make figures a great deal more frightful, and they will sell for a great deal.
Perhaps in this way I can pay you half the money, and I'm sure I shall find something else to do by and by.
I am again and always, Your loving niece, EMMA.
Fani had been sitting for some time in the library, awaiting with a beating heart the coming of Mrs.Stanhope.When the door opened, he sprang to his feet; he had learned that that was the proper thing to do when a lady entered the room.

Mrs.Stanhope took a seat on the sofa, and motioned him to take a cricket and sit down by her.
"Now tell me all about it, Fani," she began.

"Tell me the exact truth about what happened yesterday.


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