Emma C Dowd

Polly and the Princess Emma C Dowd

"Oh, I remember now! She's little and sweet-looking. Somebody told me she had nervous prostration. Too bad! She is so young and pretty!" A tiny sneer fluttered from face to face, skipping one here and there in its course. It ended in Miss Castlevaine's "Huh!" "I think Miss Sterling is real pretty!" Miss Crilly, from the opposite side, beamed on the "new lady." "She has faded dreadfully," asserted Mrs. Crump. "They used to call her handsome years ago, though she never was my style o' beauty. But now-" She shook her head with hard emphasis.