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CHAPTER IV. THE LITTLE ATTIC ROOM
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Miss Polly Harrington did not rise to meet her niece. She looked up from her book, it is true, as Nancy and the little girl appeared in the sitting-room1 doorway2, and she held out a hand with “duty” written large on every coldly extended finger.
“How do you do, Pollyanna? I—” She had no chance to say more. Pollyanna, had fairly flown across the room and flung herself into her aunt's scandalized, unyielding lap.
“Oh, Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you,” she was sobbing3. “You don't know how perfectly4 lovely it is to have you and Nancy and all this after you've had just the Ladies' Aid!”
“Very likely—though I've not had the pleasure of the Ladies' Aid's acquaintance,” rejoined Miss Polly, stiffly, trying to unclasp the small, clinging fingers, and turning frowning eyes on Nancy in the doorway. “Nancy, that will do. You may go. Pollyanna, be good enough, please, to stand erect5 in a proper manner. I don't know yet what you look like.”
Pollyanna drew back at once, laughing a little hysterically6.
“No, I suppose you don't; but you see I'm not very much to look at, anyway, on account of the freckles7. Oh, and I ought to explain about the red gingham and the black velvet8 basque with white spots on the elbows. I told Nancy how father said—”
“Yes; well, never mind now what your father said,” interrupted Miss Polly, crisply. “You had a trunk, I presume?”
“Oh, yes, indeed, Aunt Polly. I've got a beautiful trunk that the Ladies' Aid gave me. I haven't got so very much in it—of my own, I mean. The barrels haven't had many clothes for little girls in them lately; but there were all father's books, and Mrs. White said she thought I ought to have those. You see, father—”
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sitting-room
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doorway
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sobbing
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perfectly
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erect
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hysterically
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freckles
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velvet
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rustled
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luxuriously
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moss
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gilt
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mesh
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awfully
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queried
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attic
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wondrously
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abruptly
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pitcher
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unpack
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sobbed
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determinedly
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precisely
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slipper
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wailed
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sweeping
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crooked
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