Both girls stared . `` Is it -- it is n't -- yes , it is ! Doris Hunter , I believe it 's an old quilt ! '' Doris unfolded the odd present with a queer feeling of disappointment . She did not know just what she had expected the package to contain , but certainly not this . She laughed a little shakily . `` Well , we ca n't say after this that Aunt Adella never gave us anything , '' she said , when she had opened her letter . `` Listen , Penelope . '' My Dear Doris : I have decided to give up housekeeping and go out West to live with Robert . So I am disposing of such of the family heirlooms as I do not wish to take with me . I am sending you by express your Grandmother Hunter 's silk quilt . It is a handsome article still and I hope you will prize it as you should . It took your grandmother five years to make it . There is a bit of the wedding dress of every member of the family in it . Love to Penelope and yourself . Your affectionate aunt , Adella Hunter . `` I do n't see its beauty , '' said Penelope with a grimace . `` It may have been pretty once , but it is all faded now . It is a monument of patience , though . The pattern is what they call ` Little Thousands , ' is n't it ?
Tell me , Dorrie , does it argue a lack XXXXX proper respect for my ancestors that I ca n't feel very enthusiastic over this heirloom -- especially when Grandmother Hunter died years before I was born ? ''
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