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    Cicely and Other Stories
    Cicely and Other Stories
    Cicely and Other Stories
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    Cicely and Other Stories

    By Sears Gallagher and Annie F. Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Cicely and Other Stories - Sears Gallagher

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      Title: Cicely and Other Stories

      Author: Annie Fellows Johnston

      Illustrator: Sears Gallagher

      Release Date: September 7, 2006 [EBook #19202]

      Language: English

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      CICELY

      AND OTHER STORIES

      THERE WERE VOICES PASSING HER DOOR. (See page 75)ToList

      Cosy Corner Series

      CICELY

      AND OTHER STORIES

      By

      Annie Fellows Johnston

      Author of

      The Little Colonel's House Party, "The Little

      Colonel's Holidays, Two Little Knights

      of Kentucky," etc.

      Illustrated by

      Sears Gallagher and others

      Boston

      L.C. Page & Company

      1903

      Copyright, 1901

      by Perry Mason Company

      Copyright, 1902

      by L.C. Page & Company

      (INCORPORATED)

      All rights reserved

      Published, May, 1902

      Colonial Press

      Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co.

      Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENT

      These stories first appeared in the Youth's Companion and Forward. The author wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors in permitting her to republish them in the present volume.

      Messrs. L.C. Page & Company wish also to acknowledge the courtesy of the editors, by which they were able to arrange for the use of the original illustrations.

      CICELY

      CICELY

      There was a noisy whir of sewing-machines in Madame Levaney's large dressmaking establishment. Cicely Leeds's head ached as she bent over the ruffles she was hemming. She was the youngest seamstress in the room, and wore her hair hanging in two long braids.

      It seemed a pity that such girlish shoulders should be learning to stoop, and that her eyes had to bear such a constant strain. The light was particularly bad this afternoon. Every curtain was rolled to the top of its big window, but the dull December sky was as gray as a fog. Even the snow on the surrounding housetops looked gray and dirty in the smoky haze.

      Now and then Cicely looked up from her work and glanced out of the window. The cold grayness of the outdoor world made her shiver. It was a world of sooty chimney-tops as she saw it, with a few chilly sparrows huddled in a disconsolate row along the eaves. It would soon be time to be going home, and the only home Cicely had now was a cheerless little back bedroom in a cheap boarding-house. She dreaded going back to it. It was at least warm in Madame Levaney's steam-heated workrooms, and it was better to have the noise and confusion than the cold solitude.

      Cicely's chair was the one nearest the entrance to the parlour where madame received her customers, and presently some one passing through the door left it ajar. Above the hum of the machines Cicely could hear a voice that she recognised. It was that of Miss Shelby, a young society girl, who was one of madame's wealthiest customers.

      I've brought my cousin, Miss Balfour, Cicely heard her say, "and we want to ask such a favour of you, madame. You see my cousin stopped here yesterday on her way East, intending to remain only one night with us, but we've persuaded her to stay over to our party on New Year's eve. Her trunks have gone on, and of course she hasn't a thing with her in the way of an evening dress. But I told her you would come to the rescue. You are always so clever,—you could get her up a simple little party gown in no time. So, on the way down, we stopped at Bailey's, and she bought the material for it. Show it to madame, Rhoda. It's a perfect dream!"

      Cicely heard the snapping of a string, the rustling of paper, and then madame's affected little cry of admiration. But at the next word she knew just how the little Frenchwoman was shrugging her shoulders, with clasped hands and raised eyebrows.

      But, mademoiselle, Cicely heard her protesting, "it is impossible! If you will but step to ze door one instant and obsairve! Evair' one is beesy. Evair' one work, work, work to ze fullest capacitee. Look! All ze gowns zat mus' be complete before ze New Year dawn, and only two more day!"

      She stepped to the door, and with a dramatic gesture pointed to the busy sewing women and the chairs and tables covered with dresses in all stages of construction.

      "Only two day, and all zese yet to be feenish for zat same ball! Much as I desire, it is not possible!"

      Every one looked up as the two girls stood for a moment in the doorway. Miss Shelby

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