[By the Light of the Soul by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookBy the Light of the Soul CHAPTER XII 29/47
"She is as proud as punch when she gets a chance to take the little one out, and they made a pretty picture going down the street," said he, "but I hope she won't catch cold.
Is that new suit warm ?" "Oh yes! it is interlined.
I looked out for that." "You look out for my child as if she were your own, bless you, dear," Harry said, affectionately. Then Ida thought that the time for her carefully-led-up-to coup had arrived.
"I try to," said she, meekly. "You _do_." Ida began to speak, then she hesitated, with timid eyes on her husband's face. "What is it, dear ?" asked he. "Well, I have been thinking a good deal lately about Maria and her associates in school here." "Why, what is the matter with them ?" Harry asked, uneasily. "Oh, I don't know that there is anything very serious the matter with them, but Maria is at an age when she is very impressible, and there are many who are not exactly desirable.
There is Gladys Mann, for instance.
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