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She arranged the folds of her shawl more carefully over her arm so as to show the pretty palm-leaf border , and then looked up with great approval to the row of great maples that shaded the broad sidewalk . `` I wonder if we ca n't contrive to make time to go an ' see old Miss Nancy Fell ? '' she ventured to ask Mrs. Flagg . `` There ai n't a great deal o ' time before the stage goes at four o'clock ; ' t will pass quickly , but I should hate to have her feel hurt . If she was one we had visited often at home , I should n't care so much , but such folks feel any little slight . She was a member of our church ; I think a good deal of that . '' `` Well , I hardly know what to say , '' faltered Mrs. Flagg coldly .