I 've thought so much about it . Oh , mother , please let me hold it for a minute . I 'll be as careful as careful . '' `` There comes the china set Grandfather King gave her , '' said the Story Girl wistfully . `` Oh , it makes me feel sad . Think of all the hopes that Rachel Ward must have put away in this chest with all her pretty things . '' Following these , came a quaint little candlestick of blue china , and the two jugs which were to be sent to James ' wife . `` They ARE handsome , '' said Aunt Janet rather enviously . `` They must be a hundred years old . Aunt Sara Ward gave them to Rachel , and she had them for at least fifty years . I should have thought one would have been enough for James ' wife . But of course we must do just as Rachel wished . I declare , here 's a dozen tin patty pans ! '' `` Tin patty pans are n't very romantic , '' said the Story Girl discontentedly . `` I notice that you are as fond as any one of what is baked in them , '' said Aunt Janet . `` I 've heard of those patty pans . An old servant Grandmother King had gave them to Rachel . Now we are coming to the linen . That was Uncle Edward Ward 's present . How yellow it has grown . ''
We children were not greatly interested XXXXX the sheets and tablecloths and pillow-cases which now came out of the capacious depths of the old blue chest .
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