[An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott]@TWC D-Link bookAn Old-fashioned Girl CHAPTER IX 9/20
There 's my dress; how do you like it ?" said Fanny, hardly daring to lift her eyes from under the yellow tower on her head. "It 's regularly splendid; but how do you ever get into it ?" answered Polly, surveying with girlish interest the cloud of pink and white lace that lay upon the bed. "It 's fearfully and wonderfully made, but distractingly becoming, as you shall see.
Trix thinks I 'm going to wear blue, so she has got a green one, and told Belle it would spoil the effect of mine, as we are much together, of course.
Was n't that sweet of her? Belle came and told me in, time, and I just got pink, so my amiable sister, that is to be, won't succeed in her pretty little plot." "I guess she has been reading the life of Josephine.
You know she made a pretty lady, of whom she was jealous, sit beside her on a green sofa, which set off her own white dress and spoilt the blue one of her guest," answered Polly, busy with the flowers. "Trix never reads anything; you are the one to pick up clever little stories.
I 'll remember and use this one.
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