| Daddy-Long-Legs Contributor(s): Webster, Jean (Author) |
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ISBN: ISBN-13: 9798677823923 Publisher: Independently Published OUR PRICE: $9.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Romance - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.4 lbs) 118 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Book Excerpt: ...e matron. This gentleman has taken an interest in several of our boys. You remember Charles Benton and Henry Freize? They were both sent through college by Mr.--er--this Trustee, and both have repaid with hard work and success the money that was so generously expended. Other payment the gentleman does not wish. Heretofore his philanthropies have been directed solely towards the boys; I have never been able to interest him in the slightest degree in any of the girls in the institution, no matter how deserving. He does not, I may tell you, care for girls.' No, ma'am, ' Jerusha murmured, since some reply seemed to be expected at this point. To-day at the regular meeting, the question of your future was brought up.'Mrs. Lippett allowed a moment of silence to fall, then resumed in a slow, placid manner extremely trying to her hearer's suddenly tightened nerves. Usually, as you know, the children are not kept after they are sixteen, but an exception was made in your case. YouClose.. |