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The next evening the sisters again went to the ball, and Cinderella soon made her appearance, more magnificently dressed than before. The king's son was constantly at her side, saying the most agreeable things; so that Cinderella did not notice how the time passed, and had quite forgot her godmother's injunctions.
But this did not discourage her, and she became so used to her godmother's manner that it ceased to alarm her, and once she even contradicted her as bluntly as though she had been Max or Clement. Even this had no bad effect, however, for shortly afterwards Mrs Fotheringham remarked: "It's a positive relief not to have Miss Munnion here agreeing with everything I say.
I swear that all is over between us and that I love you as a friend only. "P. S. Instead of sending this letter to Dreux, as you instructed me to do, I address it to Paris, that you may find it on your return. Augustine has gone to the country, so another person writes this for me. "I have forgotten to say that my godmother's condition is still the same."
When I recovered consciousness, I found myself in a room that smiled "Auld lang syne" out of every nook. Where was I? The furniture was that with which I had been so intimate in the drawing-room of my godmother's house at Bretton.
"I may want to write something at Locust." She paused long at the foot of her bed, trying to make up her mind about her godmother's picture, that hung there in a little frame of pine cones.
Laura, on the other hand, had so far had scant experience of boys of a desirable age, nor any liking for such as she had known; indeed she still held to her childish opinion that they were "silly" feckless creatures, in spite of their greater strength and size or downright disagreeable and antagonistic, like Godmother's Erwin and Marmaduke.
I thought so! I knew it!" cried Mrs. Bretton. And she at once stepped across the hearth and kissed me. Some ladies would, perhaps, have made a great bustle upon such a discovery without being particularly glad of it; but it was not my godmother's habit to make a bustle, and she preferred all sentimental demonstrations in bas- relief.
"'Come along, said my father. 'Come, children. Come, Reuben. Come, Kitty. "And he went into the parlour, and we all followed him. "My godmother's picture of a Christmas-tree was very pretty; and the flames of the candles were so naturally done in red and yellow that I always wondered that they did not shine at night. But the picture was nothing to the reality.
She let the unfamiliar streets go past her in a kind of dream; and there was silence for a time, broken only by Godmother's expostulations with the ponies, till Cousin Grace, growing tired of playing her bright eyes first on this, then on that, brought them back to Laura and studied her up and down. "I say, who on earth trimmed your hat?" she asked almost at once.
"What is it?" asked Mariette in surprise. "Such a funny idea." "Ah!" ejaculated Mariette, with a vague feeling of apprehension, for she knew only too well the habitual character of her godmother's jests. "What idea, godmother?" "I was asking myself of what use such people as you and I are in this world wretched creatures, who know nothing but the sorrows and miseries of life; do you know, child?"
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