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The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

CHAPTER V
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Mom Beck will stand in the doahway behind you all just like a pictuah of an old-time South'n welcome.

Of co'se Joyce has seen it all befoah, but little Mary has been looking foh'wa'd to this visit to The Locusts as she would to heaven.

You know what Joyce wrote about her calling this her promised land." "I know how it is going to make her feel," said Betty.

"Just as it made me feel when I got here from the Cuckoo's Nest, and found this 'House Beautiful' of my dreams.

And if she is the little dreamer that I was the best time will not be the arrival, but early candle-lighting time, when you are playing on your harp.


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