A Daughter of the Rich

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Mary Ella Waller. A Daughter of the Rich

I. MOLASSES TEA

II. MRS. BLOSSOM'S VALENTINE

III. A CURIOUS CASE

IV. A LITTLE MILLIONAIRE

V. TRANSPLANTED

VI. MALACHI

VII. THE N.B.B.O.O. SOCIETY

VIII. A LIVELY CORRESPONDENCE

IX. THE PRIZE CHICKEN

X. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING

XI. JACK

XII. RESULTS

XIII. A SOCIAL ADDITION

XIV. THE LOST NATION

XV. WISHING-TREE SECRETS

XVI. A CHRISTMAS PRELUDE

XVII. HUNGER-FORD

XVIII. BUDD'S PROPOSAL

XIX. A YEAR AND A DAY

XX. SNOW-BOUND

XXI. A LITTLE DAUGHTER OF THE RICH

XXII. ROSE

XXIII. BEHOLD HOW GREAT A MATTER A LITTLE FIRE KINDLETH

XXIV "OLD PUT"

XXV. SAN JUAN

XXVI. MARIA-ANN'S CRUSADE

XXVII "–The stars above. Shine ever on Love–"

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It was a bitter night. Mrs. Blossom refilled the kitchen stove, and threw on more hickory in the fireplace in anticipation of her husband's late return from the village. She drew her little work-table nearer to the blaze, and sat down to her sewing. Then she sighed, and, as she bent over the large willow basket filled with stockings to be darned and clothes to be mended, a tear rolled down her cheek and plashed on the edge.

There was so much she wanted to do for her children–and so little with which to do it! There was March, an artist to his finger-tips, who longed to be an architect; and Rose, lovely in her young girlhood and giving promise of a lovelier womanhood, who was willing to work her way through one of the lesser colleges, if only she could be prepared for entrance. Mary Blossom saw no prospect of being able to do anything for either of them.

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"Then that is why he kissed me the way he did," she said thoughtfully. "But," her lip quivered, "I sha'n't have him to kiss me up there, and–and–oh, dear!" A wail went up from the canopied bed that made the Doctor turn sick at heart, and even the nurse hurried away into the dressing-room.

Somehow Doctor Heath could not exhort Hazel, as he had her father, to use common-sense. He preferred to use diplomacy.

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