StNicholas [serial] . NEW YEARS EVE IN THE GENTLE INTERFERENCE OF BAB by agnes McClelland daulton Author of From Sioux to Susan, Fritzi, etc. Chapter I AT BROOK ACRES Bab raised her head from the sofa pillow, dabbedher swollen eyes with her sodden ball of a hand-kerchief, sniffed her very red nose, and lookedat the clock. The hands of that relentless littletimepiece pointed to twenty-five minutes of was never known to be late, andthere was not a line of the French lesson trans-lated. But who cared for French when one hadwept oneself to a pulp with homesickness?
StNicholas [serial] . NEW YEARS EVE IN THE GENTLE INTERFERENCE OF BAB by agnes McClelland daulton Author of From Sioux to Susan, Fritzi, etc. Chapter I AT BROOK ACRES Bab raised her head from the sofa pillow, dabbedher swollen eyes with her sodden ball of a hand-kerchief, sniffed her very red nose, and lookedat the clock. The hands of that relentless littletimepiece pointed to twenty-five minutes of was never known to be late, andthere was not a line of the French lesson trans-lated. But who cared for French when one hadwept oneself to a pulp with homesickness? If there had only been some one to confide in,or somebody in whose arms to cuddle and cry itall out—a sofa pillow, after all, only absorbs tearsand gives no real consolation—beside, Bab wasnot used to crying and that made it seem harder,she had always talked out all her woes with hermother, or father, or the girls, and they wereusually so sympathetic! At this last thought Babsniffed harder than ever. To be sure there was Aunt Millicent; but, so
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