[The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel: Maid of Honor CHAPTER X 8/24
Maybe a real grown-up affair, with an orchestra from town and distinguished strangers to meet the three fathers, Eugenia's, Stuart's and the Pilgrim F. "We couldn't believe Rob when he told us that we were to go on a _coon hunt_, and went racing up to the house to ask godmother herself. "And she said yes, she was sure they would enjoy a glimpse of real country Southern life, and some of our informal fun, far more than the functions they could attend any time in the East.
Besides she wanted everybody to keep in mind that we were still little schoolgirls, even if we were to be bridesmaids, and that was why she was taking us all off to the woods for an old-time country frolic, instead of having a grand dinner or a formal dance. "Then Rob asked us if we didn't want to beg his pardon for doubting his word, but Lloyd told him no, that "'The truth itself is not believed From one who often has deceived.' "Then we tried to make him choose which he'd have, right or left, and held out our hands again, but he said he knew that some great question of choice was being involved, and that he would not assume the responsibility.
That we'd have to draw straws, if we wanted to decide anything.
So Eugenia held two blades of grass between her palms, and Joyce drew the longest one.
I couldn't help groaning, for that meant that the Pilgrim Father must fall to my lot. "But it didn't seem so bad after I met him.
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