Children's Classics from the 19th-century There was a look of utter despair on Prudy's disfigured face. Bitter tears were trickling from the two white puff-balls, which had been her eyes; her forehead and cheeks were of a flaming pink, broken into little snow-drifts full of stings: she looked as if she had just been rescued from an angry beehive. Altogether, her appearance was exceedingly droll; yet Grace would not allow herself to smile at her afflicted little cousin. "Strange," said she, "what makes our mosquitoes so impolite to strangers! It's a downright shame, isn't it, ma, to have little Prudy, so imposed upon? If I could only amuse her, and make her forget it!"
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Little Prudy series ; 5 May, Sophie, 1833-1906. Little Prudy series ; 5.
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