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Were all well grown, and Aunt Comfort feared she might have larger
fingers. "Why, I've seen girls eight years old with fingers a good deal
bigger than yours, Emily," she said. "Suppose Comfort shouldn't be able
to get that ring on her finger after she's eight years old, what a pity
'twould be, when it's real gold, too!" But when Comfort was eight years
old she was very small for her age, and she could actually crowd two of
her fingers--the little one and the third--into the ring. She begged her
mother to let her wear it so, but she would not. "No," said she, "I
sha'n't let you make yourself a laughing-stock by wearing a ring any
such way as that. Besides, you couldn't use your fingers. You've got to
wait till your hand grows to it." So poor little Comfort waited, but she
had a discouraged feeling sometimes that her