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The Little Colonel’s Hero

CHAPTER IV
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Let me hear if you can say it after me." Lloyd tripped over some of the rough sounds as she repeated the sentence, but tried it again and again until the Major cried "Bravo! You shall have more lessons in French, dear child, until you can give the command so well that Hero shall obey you as he does me." Then he began talking of Christine, her fair hair, her blue eyes, her playful ways; and Lloyd, listening, drew him on with many questions, till the little French maiden seemed to stand pictured before her, her hands filled with the lovely spring flowers of the motherland.
Suddenly the Major arose, bowing courteously, for Mrs.Sherman, seeing them from the doorway, had smiled and started toward them.

Springing up, Lloyd ran to meet her.
"Mothah," she whispered, "please ask the Majah to sit at ou' table to-night at dinnah.

He's such a deah old man, and tells such interestin' things, and he's lonesome.

The tears came into his eyes when he talked about his little daughtah.

She was just my age when she died, mothah, and he thinks she looked like me." The Major's courtly manner and kind face had already aroused Mrs.
Sherman's interest.


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