Allie

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Anna Chapin Ray,  In Blue Creek Cañon

“ And Allie sprang up, and dragged her cousin to the nearest mirror. All at once she began to caper madly about the room.
"What's struck you, Allie?" inquired Charlie, pausing in his contemplation of himself to stare at his excited cousin.
"I've just had the most lovely idea," said Allie incoherently. "It's too much fun for anything, and we must do it."
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Source: Gutenberg

Anna Chapin Ray,  In Blue Creek Cañon — 2. To Welcome the Coming Guest (1892)

“ And Allie found herself in her father's arms, and then released, as Mr. Burnam added, "Here, Charlie, this is your Cousin Alice."
With a sudden shyness, Allie put her hand into the one before her, as she glanced up at the boyish face which was looking down into her own. Something she read there, in the half-anxious expression of the brown eyes, made her forget her more formal salutation, and say cordially,—
"Are you the new brother that's come to live at our house? It's going to be splendid to have you there."
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Source: Wikisource

Portrait of Margaret M. Robertson Margaret M. Robertson,  Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not

“ That ought to have been enough, and there were only a few words more, and this was one of them:
“Allie,” said John gravely, “I doubt that I am neither so wise nor so good as you think me to be. You will need to have patience with me. There are some who say I am hard, and ower-full of myself, and whiles I have thought it of myself. But, Allie, if I am ever hard with you, or forgetful, or if I ever hurt you by word or deed, it will not be because I do not love you dearly. And you will ay have patience with me, dear, and trust me?”
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Source: Gutenberg

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