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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in! Mrs. Bruce is waiting for you, and it iscold outside. Good Mr. Brick, dismissed with a friendly good-by, and a suitablesum in his pocket, now drove off down the hill. The others entered the house, where Mrs. Bruce was standingat the door of a large room. She was a little bit of a woman,with gray hair that had once been yellow, smoothly put awayunder a cap ; she was wrapped up in a knit shawl, and she shiv- 58 A FAMILY FLIGHT AHOUND HOME. ered as she urged them to come in. The room was nice andwarm from the heat of the inevitable wood stove Every one sat down for a few minutes; but Mr. Horner, withall the .mpatience of a boy, wanted to see the old house; andwith Mrs. Bruce s permission, they went all over it from garret tok, Chen, pausing to look at the extens.ve views from every window,wh.ch, fine even at that season, promised to be beautiful insummer. The hope of the early morning, that pleasant weather was coming,faded ; before noon snow began to fall, and when the mid-day din-
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