Dear Enemy
Dear Enemy
by Jean Webster
First published 1915 · 263 pages · about 4 hours to read
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About this book
Sallie McBride, the new director of the John Grier Home for orphans, keeps her friends posted on the latest occurrences in that institution.
Quotes
“Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me--I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum!”
“I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo.”
“If I chose to put my whole soul into this enterprise, I could make the rippingest superintendent that any 111 orphans ever had.”
“I have a sweet, sunny, unsuspicious nature, and I like everybody, almost. But no one could like that Scotch doctor. He NEVER smiles.”
“He is a pink, fat, puffy old thing, with a pink, fat, puffy soul.”
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