[The Little Colonel’s House Party by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel’s House Party CHAPTER VIII 26/29
I am to have a long life and lots of money, and to be married twice.
And she told me to beware of a fleshy, dark person with black eyes, who is jealous of me and will try to do me harm." "What did she tell you, Joyce ?" asked Betty, eagerly, feeling that she had missed the great opportunity of her life for lifting the veil that hid her future. "She said that I had been across a big body of water and was going again, but the rest was a lot of stuff that I didn't believe and can't remember." "She didn't give me a dollar's worth of fortune," complained Rob.
"Not by a long shot." He had paid his own way and now thought regretfully of the two circuses to which the squandered dollar might have admitted him. "Let's not tell anybody we've been here," suggested Eugenia as they started homeward.
"It will make it so much more romantic, to keep it a secret.
We can wait and see what comes true, and tell each other years afterward." "But I always tell mothah everything," cried the Little Colonel, in surprise.
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