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Mary’s Meadow

CHAPTER VI
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The only difficulty about my part was to find a name for it.

I might have taken the name of the man who wrote the book--it is Alphonse Karr,--just as Arthur was going to be called John Parkinson.

But I am a girl, so it seemed silly to take a man's name.

And I wanted some kind of title, too, like King's Apothecary and Herbarist, or Weeding Woman, and Alphonse Karr does not seem to have had any by-name of that sort.
I had put Adela's bonnet on my head to carry it safely, and was still sitting thinking, when the others burst into the library.
Arthur was first, waving a sheet of paper; but when Adela saw the bonnet, she caught hold of his arm and pushed forward.
"Oh, it's sweet! Mary, dear, you're an angel.

You couldn't be better if you were a real milliner and lived in Paris.


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