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The Little Colonel’s Chum: Mary Ware

CHAPTER IV
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Now, Mary, here is a chance for you to do some real missionary work, and teach her that '_the rank is but the guinea's stamp_,' and that we're all pure gold, 'for a' that and a' that,' no matter if we are not members of the British peerage." "I wouldn't mind telling her anything if she were a real heathen," was Mary's earnest answer.

"But trying to break through her reserve is a harder task than butting a hole through the Chinese wall.

You've no idea how haughty she is.

Well, I don't care--much." She cared enough, however, to take a lively interest in her room-mate's pedigree, after seeing the crest on her note paper.

Later in the morning when some literature references made it necessary for her to go to the library, she looked around for a certain fat volume she had pored over several times during those idle days before the beginning of school.


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