. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . Various Stages of Undress, ....... 7j6 Will you dance this waltz with me? .... 139 The two Pink Silk Frocks lay upon the Bed, . . She put out Her Hand and Touched the UnsmilingCheek, ......... And She Bent Over and Kissed Her Round Check, . What is Improving, Mamma ? . . . She Laughed a great deal as She was Doing It, . 202 //—why, it is so clever / . . . 206 The Woes and Raptures of Edith Somerville,. . 220 The Poor were Starving, ....... 2jg The First Bales of Cotton, ...... 242 The Small Person Looked upon her with Deferen
. The one I knew the best of all : a memory of the mind of a child . Various Stages of Undress, ....... 7j6 Will you dance this waltz with me? .... 139 The two Pink Silk Frocks lay upon the Bed, . . She put out Her Hand and Touched the UnsmilingCheek, ......... And She Bent Over and Kissed Her Round Check, . What is Improving, Mamma ? . . . She Laughed a great deal as She was Doing It, . 202 //—why, it is so clever / . . . 206 The Woes and Raptures of Edith Somerville,. . 220 The Poor were Starving, ....... 2jg The First Bales of Cotton, ...... 242 The Small Person Looked upon her with Deference and Yearning, ......... 245 Good-by He Said. / hope you will like America, . 248 Oh, dear! Now Fm going to America, . . 250{i I have found a Pimpernel! 259 List of Illustrations xv PAGE // Became one of her Pleasures to Watch a Bird Light upon a Low Branch, ....... 271 With the Little Cat Curled up in her Left Arm, . 288 They Chased about the Warm, Yellowing Woods like Wild Things, 309 Thirty-five dollars He Said, Staring at Her, . 324. THE ONE I KNEW THE BEST OF ALL A MEMORY OF THE MIND OF A CHILD CHAPTER I The One I Knew the Best of All I HAD every opportunity for knowing herwell, at least. We were born on the same day, welearned to toddle about together, we began ourearliest observations of the world we lived in atthe same period, we made the same mental re-marks on people and things, and reserved to our-selves exactly the same rights of private personalopinion. I have not the remotest idea of what she lookedlike. She belonged to an era when photographywas not as advanced an art as it is to-day, and nopicture of her was ever made. It is a well-authen-ticated fact that she was auburn-haired and rosy,and I can testify that she was curly, because oneof my earliest recollections of her emotions is amemory of the momentarily maddening effect of asharp, stinging jerk of the comb when the nurse 2 The One I Knew the Best of All was absent-minded or maladroit. That she wasalso a
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