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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Pixie O'Shaughnessy

Pixie O'Shaughnessy

De Horne Vaizey, Mrs George

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ISBN10: 1515046362
ISBN13: 9781515046363
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 13 2015
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.37 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
[...] The eyes of the dying woman roamed from one to the other of her six children-twenty-two-year-old Jack, handsome and manly, so like-oh, so like that other Jack who had come wooing her nearly thirty years ago! Bridgie, slim and delicate-so unfit, poor child, to take the burden of a mother's place; Miles, with his proud, overbearing look, a boy who had had especial claims on her care and guidance; Joan, beautiful and daring, ignorant of nothing so much as of her own ignorance; Pat, of the pensive face and reckless spirit; and last but not least, Pixie, her baby-dear, naughty, loyal little Pixie, whom she must leave to the tender mercies of children little older than herself! The dim eyes brightened, the thin hand stretched out and gripped her husband by the arm. Jack! she cried shrilly-Pixie! Give Pixie a chance! Take care of her-she is so young-and I can't stay. For my sake, Jack, give Pixie a chance![...].

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