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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...pink ears. "There," Susan exclaimed. "I look as old as a miss of fourteen and I can be quite as dignified. I will put on my best silk dress, and my silk hose, and my Sunday shoes with the silver buckles." As she spoke, Susan pulled out boxes and opened a chest and drawers. Then she stood in front of her mother, her arms loaded with finery. She made a quaint little curtsey. "The family of the President of the Continental Congress will be represented at the Royal Governor's party," she said. "Mistress Susan Boudinot will take the place of Madam Boudinot." A space of a half-hour later a dignified little lady stepped out of the door of the Boudinot mansion and into a waiting chaise. Susan held her head very high. Was not her hair done up for the first time, and its mass of ringlets pinned with one of her mother's tortoise-shell combs? Her buff brocade dress was made with a lace underbody. A polonaise and deep frills of lace edged the elbow-length, closefitting sleeves and fell as far as the small white hands. A blue locket on a strip of narrow black velvet ribbon was hung about the little girl's throat, and over it all was thrown a ruffled cape of her mother's lined with fur. As the chaise rattled away toward the Governor's mansion her mother's parting words to her repeated themselves over and over again in Susan's mind. "Be a good child, Susan, and do not forget for a moment that you are representing your father and, through him, the Congress." It was a gay scene in which little Mistress Susan soon found herself. The Governor's parlor was very beautiful with its high-backed mahogany chairs and great bowls of roses. A huge sideboard was loaded with cakes and sweets, and the great round table...
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- EditoreTheClassics.us
- Data di pubblicazione2013
- ISBN 10 1230392394
- ISBN 13 9781230392394
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine30
- Valutazione libreria
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