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Laddie

CHAPTER VI
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No one COULD have said enough about it, so no matter what the Princess said, it had to be all right.

She kept straight on showing all of them how lovely it was, exactly as if they hadn't seen it before, and she had to make them understand about it, as if she felt afraid they might have missed some elegant touch she had seen.
"Do look how the lace falls when I raise this sleeve! Oh how will you wear this and think of a man enough to say the right words in the right place ?" Mother laughed, and so did all of them.
"Do please show me the rest," begged the Princess.

"I know there are slippers and a bonnet!" Sally just oozed pride.

She untied the strings and pushed the prettiest striped bag from a lovely pink bandbox and took out a dear little gray bonnet with white ribbons, and the yellow bead fringe, and a bunch of white roses with a few green leaves.

These she touched softly, "I'm not quite sure about the leaves," she said.
The Princess had the bonnet, turning and tilting it.
"Perfect!" she cried.


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