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Anna's Love Letters
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"Are you going to answer Gilbert's letter tonight, Anna?" asked Alma Williams, standing1 in the pantry doorway2, tall, fair, and grey-eyed, with the sunset light coming down over the dark firs, through the window behind her, and making a primrose3 nimbus around her shapely head.
Anna, dark, vivid, and slender, was perched on the edge of the table, idly swinging her slippered4 foot at the cat's head. She smiled wickedly at Alma before replying.
"I am not going to answer it tonight or any other night," she said, twisting her full, red lips in a way that Alma had learned to dread5. Mischief6 was ripening7 in Anna's brain when that twist was out.
"What do you mean?" asked Alma anxiously.
"Just what I say, dear," responded Anna, with deceptive8 meekness9. "Poor Gilbert is gone, and I don't intend to bother my head about him any longer. He was amusing while he lasted, but of what use is a beau two thousand miles away, Alma?"
Alma was patient—outwardly. It was never of any avail to show impatience10 with Anna.
"Anna, you are talking foolishly. Of course you are going to answer his letter. You are as good as engaged to him. Wasn't that practically understood when he left?"
"No, no, dear," and Anna shook her
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apron
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liking
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sitting-room
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mellowing
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