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    Mrs. Dud's Sister
    Mrs. Dud's Sister
    Mrs. Dud's Sister
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    Mrs. Dud's Sister

    By Josephine Daskam Bacon

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Mrs. Dud's Sister
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    Josephine Daskam Bacon

    Josephine Daskam Bacon (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (born: Josephine Dodge Daskam) (February 17, 1876 – July 29, 1961) was an American writer of great versatility. She is chiefly known as a writer who made the point of having female protagonists. (Wikipedia)

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      Mrs. Dud's Sister - Josephine Daskam Bacon

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Mrs. Dud's Sister, by Josephine Daskam

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      Title: Mrs. Dud's Sister

      Author: Josephine Daskam

      Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23369]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

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      MRS. DUD'S SISTER

      By Josephine Daskam

      Copyright, 1903, by Charles Scribner's Sons

      They were having tea on the terrace. As Varian strolled up to the group he wished that Hunter could see the picture they made—Hunter, who had not been in America for thirty years, and who had been so honestly surprised when Varian had spoken of Mrs. Dud's pretty maids—she always had pretty ones, even to the cook's third assistant.

      Maids? Maids? It used to be 'help,' he had protested. You don't mean to say they have waitresses in Binghamville now?

      Varian had despaired of giving him any idea.

      Come over and see Mrs. Dud, he had urged, and do her portrait. We've moved on since you left us, you know. She's a wonder—she really is. When you remember how she used to carry her father's dinner to the store Saturday afternoons—

      And now I suppose she sports real Mechlin on her cap, assented Hunter, anxious to show how perfectly he caught the situation.

      Varian had roared helplessly. Cap? Cap! he had moaned finally. Oh, my sainted granny! Cap! My poor fellow, your view of Binghamville must be like the old maps of Africa in the green geography, that said 'desert' and 'interior' and 'savage tribes' from time to time. I should like awfully to see Mrs. Dud in a cap.

      Hunter had looked puzzled.

      But, dear me! she might very well wear one, I should think, he had murmured defensively. I don't wish to be invidious, but surely Lizzie must be—let's see; 'eighty, 'ninety—why, she must be between forty-five and fifty now.

      Varian had waved his hand dramatically. Nobody considers Mrs. Dud and time in the same breath. If you could see her in her golf rig! Or on a horse! She even sheds a lustre on the rest of us. I forget my rheumatism!

      But Hunter, retreating behind his determination to avoid a second seasickness—it might have been sincere; nobody ever knew—had stayed in Florence, and Varian had

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