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I never breathed the thoct to ither mortal ear, but when they cam hame frae that summer in the North, she was na the blythe young thing she had been; and there was that in the wistfu 'and hungered look o' her sweet een -- when she turned them whiles upon her father -- that made me think some ane he didna approve had won the innocent young heart. "
Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" Martha Finley 1868
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