[The Little Colonel by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel CHAPTER VI 3/14
He sho'ly will." Lloyd crept away frightened.
It seemed such an awful thing to see her mother cry. All at once her bright, happy world had changed to such a strange, uncertain place.
She felt as if all sorts of terrible things were about to happen. She went into the parlour, and crawled into a dark corner under the piano, feeling that there was no place to go for comfort, since the one who had always kissed away her little troubles was so heart-broken herself. There was a patter of soft feet across the carpet, and Fritz poked his sympathetic nose into her face.
She put her arms around him, and laid her head against his curly back with a desolate sob. It is pitiful to think how much imaginative children suffer through their wrong conception of things.
She had seen the little roll of bills in her mother's pocketbook.
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