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The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor

CHAPTER IX
19/29

I will not cut the golden warp from out the loom, until I, a woman grown, have woven such a web as thou thyself shalt say is worthy of a prince's wearing.' (That's what I promised Papa Jack.) "Of co'se it turned out, that one day with her fathah's blessing light upon her, she rode away beside the prince, and evah aftah all her life was crowned with happiness, as it had been written for her in the stahs." There was a long pause when she finished, so long that the silence began to grow painful.

Then Phil said, slowly: "I understand now.

Would you mind telling me what the measure was your father gave you that your prince must be ?" "There were three notches.

He must be clean and honahable and strong." There was another long pause before Phil said, "Well, I wouldn't be measuring up to that second notch if I asked you to break your promise to your father, and you wouldn't do it even if I did.

So there's nothing more for me to say at present.


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