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DADDY-LONG-LEGS (5) [DADDY-LONG-LEGS]

DADDY-LONG-LEGS (5)

   Mrs. Lippett in the office,
   And I think she's mad.
                   Ah-a-men !

Tommy piously intoned, but his accent was not enturely malicious.
Even the most hardened little orphan felt sympathy for erring sister who was summoned to the office to face an annoyed marton ; and Tommy liked Jerusha even if she did sometimes jerk him by the arm and nearly scrub his nose off.

Jerusha went without comment, but with two parallel lines on her brow.
※lines しわ

What could have gone wrong, she wondered.

Where the sandwiches not thin enough ?
Were there shells in the nut cakes ?
Had a lady visitor seen the hole in Susie Hawthom's stocking ?

Had ー oh, horrors ! ー one of the cherubic little babes in her own room F  "sassed " a Trustee ?

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