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“Oh, I don’t know,” said Lucy,PJS Dameklær Kodiak Strøk, blushing pink over brow and neck. “It is a bad plan to raise expectation; you will perhaps be disappointed. But I have prepared a charming surprise for him; I shall have a glorious laugh against him. I shall not tell you what it is, though.”
Lucy rose from her knees and went to a little distance, holding her pretty head on one side, as if she had been arranging Maggie for a portrait, and wished to judge of the general effect.
“Stand up a moment, Maggie.”
“What is your pleasure now?” said Maggie, smiling languidly as she rose from her chair and looked down on her slight, aerial cousin, whose figure was quite subordinate to her faultless drapery of silk and crape.
Lucy kept her contemplative attitude a moment or two in silence, and then said —
“I can’t think what witchery it is in you, Maggie, that makes you look best in shabby clothes; though you really must have a new dress now. But do you know, last night I was trying to fancy you in a handsome, fashionable dress, and do what I would, that old limp merino would come back as the only right thing for you. I wonder if Marie Antoinette looked all the grander when her gown was darned at the elbows. Now, if I were to put anything shabby on, I should be quite unnoticeable. I should be a mere rag.”
“Oh, quite,Dominik Hasek Tröjor,” said Maggie, with mock gravity. “You would be liable to be swept out of the room with the cobwebs and carpet-dust, and to find yourself under the grate,Canada Goose Trillium Parka, like Cinderella. Mayn’t I sit down now?”
“Yes,Ryan Murray Tröjor, now you may,” said Lucy, laughing. Then, with an air of serious reflection,Teemu Pulkkinen Tröjor, unfastening her large jet brooch,NHL Mens Montreal Canadiens Black Camo Stack Pullover Hoodie, “But you must change brooches,Gilbert Perreault Tröjor, Maggie; that little butterfly looks silly on you.”
“But won’t that mar the charming effect of my consistent shabbiness?” said Maggie, seating herself submissively, while Lucy knelt again and unfastened the contemptible butterfly. “I wish my mother were of your opinion, for she was fretting last night because this is my best frock. I’ve been saving my money to pay for some lessons; I shall never get a better situation without more accomplishments.”
Maggie gave a little sigh.
“Now,Mark Scheifele Tröjor, don’t put on that sad look again,Team North America Tröjor,” said Lucy,Vince Dunn Tröjor, pinning the large brooch below Maggie’s fine throat. “You’re forgetting that you’ve left that dreary schoolroom behind you, and have no little girls’ clothes to mend.”
“Yes,” said Maggie. “It is with me as I used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear I saw at the show. I thought he must have got so stupid with the habit of turning backward and forward in that narrow space that he would keep doing it if they set him free. One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.”
“But I shall put you under a discipline of pleasure that will make you lose that bad habit,Jack Johnson Tröjor,” said Lucy, sticking the black butterfly absently in her own collar, while her eyes met Maggie’s affectionately.
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