[An Old-fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott]@TWC D-Link bookAn Old-fashioned Girl CHAPTER III 14/17
You want a locket, deary; so I send one that my mother gave me years ago.
You will find father's face on one side, mine on the other; and when things trouble you, just look at your talisman, and I think the sunshine will come back again." Of course it did, for the best of all magic was shut up in the quaint little case that Polly wore inside her frock, and kissed so tenderly each night and morning.
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same.
She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.
One temptation Polly had already yielded to before the letter came, and repented heartily of afterward. "Polly, I wish you 'd let me call you Marie," said Fanny one day, as they were shopping together. "You may call me Mary, if you like; but I won't have any ie put on to my name.
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