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Elsie at Home

CHAPTER XVI
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It would give her pleasure, for she would look lovely in them, and every woman wants to look her very best at her bridal." But the breakfast bell was ringing, and, putting them carefully back in the trunk and relocking it, she hastened down to the dining room.
There were a number of guests in the house, among them the Emburys of Magnolia Hall, and, naturally, the talk at the table ran principally upon the approaching marriage of Molly's brother, Dr.Percival.
"I am much pleased," she said; "Maud will make a dear little sister for me, and I hope will find me a good and kind one to her.

And if Sydney goes along she will be about as good as another.

Perhaps Bob and she will get up another match, and then she will be my sister.

I wish Bob could have come along with the rest of us." "Yes, I wish he could," said Mrs.Travilla.

"He must take his turn at another time, leaving Dick to look after the patients." "I think Maud feels a trifle disappointed that she has no time to get up a grand wedding dress," Molly ran on, "but the one she wore as Rosie's bridesmaid is very pretty and becoming.


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