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"O yes, dear godmother," replied Cinderella; and then, with a good deal of hesitation, she added, "but how can I make my appearance among so many finely-dressed people in these shabby clothes?" "Give yourself no uneasiness about that, my dear. The most difficult part of our task is already accomplished, and it will be hard if I cannot make your dress correspond with your coach and servants."
Mr. Ferrars was to be her godfather. Mr. Kendal had wished Aunt Winifred, as Lucy called her, to be the godmother, but Sophy had begged earnestly for Mrs. Dusautoy, whose kindness had made a great impression. There was not much liking between Mrs. Ferrars and Sophy.
"Oh, dear, no!" laughed Godmother, "only the first little step towards realizing it." One day when Mary Alice had been in New York nearly two weeks and had found several fairies Godmother was obliged to go out, in the afternoon, to some sort of a committee meeting which would have been quite uninteresting to an outsider.
Then Susie saw fairies doing all sorts of magical tricks, such as making lemonade out of lemons, and things like that. Then, all at once, just when one little fairy was making a hat out of some straw, the godmother said: "It is time for us to go now," so the burdock leaf came sailing through the air, and Susie got on.
"She seemed to recover her strength. She raised herself in bed, and, holding the crucifix attached to her rosary to my lips, she said: "'Swear by the image of our Saviour, that you will faithfully execute the last will of your dying godmother. "I took the required oath, and an expression of satisfaction overspread her features. "'That is well, she said; 'I shall die content.
I happened to look timidly up from my stitching, across the table at my godmother, and I saw in her face, looking gloomily at me, "It would have been far better, little Esther, that you had had no birthday, that you had never been born!" I broke out crying and sobbing, and I said, "Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did Mama die on my birthday?" "No," she returned.
"Suppose," thought he, "I were to do as she says, and go out in the world, no matter how it hurts me the world of people, active people, as that boy I saw. They might only laugh at me poor helpless creature that I am; but still I might show them I could do something. At any rate, I might go and see if there were anything for me to do. Godmother, help me!"
"Congratulate me, sire; I have found my godmother." "Ah, so much the better." "And who," asked the king, with impatience, "may the lady be?" "Madame de Bearn, a lady of quality in her own right, and of high nobility on her husband's side." "Yes, he was a garde du corps, and the son has just left the pages. Ah! she will present you then. That's well; I shall feel favored by her."
"Now I must go," said she, as the trumpets blared louder and louder, and the shouts of the people showed that they would not endure any delay. "Good-by, good-by! Open the window and out I fly." Prince Dolor repeated gayly the musical rhyme but all the while tried to hold his godmother fast.
"As for her lung trouble, it is very common among women who continually breathe the dust arising from the wool used in mattresses. My godmother is almost bent double, and during her long paroxysms of coughing I am sometimes obliged to support her in my arms for hours." "You alone, then, contribute to her support?" "Certainly, since she is unable to work."
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