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I haven’t asked you yet if you’d help in our Bazar, have I? exclaimed Peggy, addressing Elaine.
gpt
It’s the tenth of this month. It was the tenth we decided on at last, wasn’t it, Ruth?
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Yes, the tenth, Ruth replied, and Priscilla took up the explanation.
gpt
It’s for the Empty Stocking Club. We buy dolls with the money we make, and dress them afterward.
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And it’s an awful lot of fun, said Peggy.
gpt
Fun all the way, first making the things for the Bazar, and then the Bazar itself, and then buying the dolls and dressing them. And of course giving them to the children is the best fun of all.
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My daughter would have been very glad to help you when our circumstances were different, said Mrs. Marshall, coming to Elaine’s assistance.
gpt
My family have always given largely to charity. Solicitors for philanthropic objects often said to my father, ’We like to come to you first, Mr. Elwell, because you always give so generously, and that inspires others.’ And Mr. Marshall, before his business reverses, thought nothing of writing a check for a hundred dollars for a worthy cause.
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The trouble with me, said Elaine abruptly,