[DOWNLOAD] "In Wild Rose Time" by Amanda M. Douglas * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: In Wild Rose Time
- Author : Amanda M. Douglas
- Release Date : January 30, 2011
- Genre: Historical,Books,Young Adult,Fiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 232 KB
Description
This is a romance book. They dropped in at the open window, and landed on Virginia Deering’s lap. Her first impulse was to throw them out again, as she half said to herself, “I hate wild roses, I always shall!” But she glanced down into such a forlorn, wistful face, that her heart was touched, a not unkindly heart, though it had been bitter and obdurate with the unreason of youth. 'Oh, please buy ’em, mem. Mammy’s sick and can’t do nothin’, an’ Ben’s got a fever. On’y ten cents. ' The poor child, in her ragged dress, was clean enough. Her face had a starved, eager look, and the earnest pleading in the eyes bespoke necessity seldom counterfeited. Miss Deering opened 2 her pretty silver-clasped purse and handed out a quarter. 'All of it?' hesitatingly. 'Oh, thanky, thanky! We’d sold the chickens, and everything we could, and Ben said city folks was fond of wild-flowers'.