Page 76 - The Little sister of Wilifred
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the house determined to 'see this little
girl who was said to bear such a wonder
ful likeness to herself.
When she reached Dr. Moran’s
grounds, Wilifred happened to be
playing tennis with Arthur, — the
Doctor watching the game from one
of the scats under the maple trees.
It was he who spied poor Peggy as
she stood by the wall, looking with
curious eyes at Wilifred as she darted
hither and thither over the ground.
Peggy was thinking, as she stood
there, that this little girl in her pretty
dress and jaunty tennis cap, although
much more beautiful, yet bore a strange
resemblance to the reflection she some
times caught in the mirrors of the lodg
ing-house slavey. She had just such a
tangle of red gold curls, just such soft
hazel eyes, and a nose and a mouth