lovely, you

Mystery. Preparations for the birthday went forth apace, and the
question of gifts was the important topic of the hour. Isolation from
shops threw the girls largely upon their own resources; besides, it was
known that Mrs. Clyde did not favor anything but the simplest of gifts.
Sarah, whose drawn-work had progressed steadily in spite of all
obstacles, enjoyed a small triumph, being the only one prepared with a
suitable present. "Now they'll leave me in peace while I finish it," she
thought with a sigh of relief. But it was not altogether peace that
Sarah enjoyed, for the other girls took it into their heads to fashion
something for Blue Bonnet with their own hands, and sought Sarah's room
as the one spot secure from the eyes of the curious. "What are you going
to give Blue Bonnet?" Debby asked Alec one day. He laughed mysteriously.
"I'm aiming to surprise everybody as well as Blue Bonnet. It isn't much
of a present, and the surprise is the only thing about it worth while."
Blue Bonnet was obligingly blind and deaf, in these days. Letters flying
back and forth, packages by mail or express, she ignored religiously.
"It's a real midsummer Christmas," she said to her grandmother one day,
when all the other girls had shut themselves up in Sarah's room. "I
thought there never could be anything so exciting and thrilly as getting
ready for Christmas in Woodford, but t

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