Now listen to the second." She stares about with stately mien: "O ho, just look at me! If I am not acknowledged queen, I surely ought to be." Her friend agrees with patient air And fastens up her shoes.
Then queenie thinks: That's only fair, She couldn't well refuse.
But if the friend should try to show The queen her faults, look out! She'd break the friendship at a blow And straightway turn about.
Mea had been obliged to laugh a little at first at the description of the humble behaviour which did not seem to describe her very well.

Finally, however, sad memories rose up in her.
"Do you know, mother," she cried out excitedly, "it is not the worst that she shows me her back, but that one can't ever agree with her.

Every time I find anything pleasant and good, she says the opposite, and when I say that something is wrong and horrid, she won't be of my opinion either.

It is so hard to keep her friendship because we always seem to quarrel when I haven't the slightest desire to." "Just let her go.

She is the same as her brothers," said Bruno.