Vulgar words in Our Frank - and other stories (Page 1)
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"I'm just looking out some old clothes for poor Mrs Dicks," she said.
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"Do you mean _our_ Mrs Dicks?" asked Penny.
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"Our Mrs Dicks" had been her mother's maid, and after she married the children had often been to visit her, and considered her a great friend.
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Penny was fond of Mrs Dicks, and it seemed dreadful to think that she must now bring up six children on nothing.
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Nurse rolled up a tight bundle of clothes and left the room without answering, and Penny, with her frowning little face bent over her work, went on thinking about Mrs Dicks and her six children.
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"If you were a fairy farthing," she said, "you'd get yourself changed into gold on purpose to help Mrs Dicks; but it's no use waiting for that."
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It was a great honour and delight, and she had saved up so many questions to ask about various subjects that she had scarcely time to tell her about Mrs Dicks and the state of the charity-box.
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I don't know the Africans, and if I work, I'd rather work for Mrs Dicks."
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"And who, my dear child," said Mrs Hathaway, surprised at Penny's vehemence, "is Mrs Dicks?"
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She spoke quite kindly, and her face looked softer, so Penny was emboldened to tell her about the whole affair, and how Mrs Dicks was a very nice woman, and had six children to bring up on nothing.
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"I think," said Penny very deliberately, "that as there's so little in the charity-box I should like to work for Mrs Dicks' children."
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But she kept her resolve and did work for Mrs Dicks.
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The day on which she finished a set of tiny shirts for the baby Dicks was one of triumph to herself, and of congratulation from the whole household; Mrs Dicks herself was almost speechless with admiration at Miss Penny's needlework; indeed the finest embroideries, produced by the most skilful hand, could not have been more praised and appreciated.