[The Palace Beautiful by L. T. Meade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Palace Beautiful CHAPTER IX 6/8
I have read about it, and I have dreamed about it, and I have pictured it.
What fun you will have! Of course your aunt will take you to see all the sights. Oh, do sit down.
Primrose, we ought to tell her about the places she should see, ought we not ?" Primrose nodded, and Poppy dropped on to the edge of the nearest chair, and, clasping her red and hard-worked hands in front of her, prepared herself to listen. "First of all, Poppy," began Jasmine, after waiting for her sister to speak; but Primrose was strangely silent. "First of all, Poppy, you must go to the places which improve your mind; now, I do hope you are not going to be giddy, running just after pretty things; but I suppose your aunt, who is so wise, and who keeps the boarding-house, will see to that.
Well, first of all you had better go to Westminster Abbey.
Oh, Poppy! I have read such glorious descriptions of it--the lights from the painted windows--the wonderfully ancient look of the old pillars, and then the music; it peals down the aisles and echoes through the fretted roofs; you will be greatly overpowered at Westminster Abbey, Poppy; but you must remember that you are a very privileged person, and be thankful for being permitted to see with your own eyes such a lovely, lovely, glorious place!" "It do sound, from your description, very awe-inspiring, Miss Jasmine," answered Poppy.
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