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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
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