Penelope's English Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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"True. Can we call it anything that will suggest its situation? Is
there a Hill Crest?" "Yes, miss, there is 'Ill Crest, 'Ill Top, 'Ill View, 'Ill Side, 'Ill End, H'under 'Ill, 'Ill Bank, and 'Ill Terrace." "I should think that would do for Hill." "Thank you, miss. 'Ow would 'The 'Edge' do, miss?" "But we have no hedge." (She shall not have anything with an h in it, if I can help it.) "No, miss, but I thought I might set out a bit, if worst come to worst." "And wait three or four years before people would know why the cottage was named? Oh no, Mrs. Bobby." "Thank you, miss." "We might have something quite out of the common, like 'Providence Cottage,' down the bank. I don't know why Mrs. Jones calls it Providence Cottage, unless she thinks it's a providence that she has one at all; or because, as it's just on the edge of the hill, she thinks it's a providence that it hasn't blown off. How would you like 'Peace' or 'Rest' Cottage?" "Begging your pardon, miss, it's neither peace nor rest I gets in it these days, with a twenty-five pound debt 'anging over me, and three |
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