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Updated: June 16, 2025
Just as they had finished their labours, and Alice had prevailed upon Maddie to put herself in a little better order, and the three young friends had seated themselves upon the step to get something from Alice's Bible some words of love and blessing, as Alice said, from their heavenly Father there came a lady up the road towards them.
And as Alice said this, the tears glistened in her blue eyes, as the dew-drops sparkle through the sunlight in the violets. "We'll go and see her now," continued she; "and I'll show you two other little exiled princesses." And she took Lolly and Maddie down by the brook-side, and bade them look in her great mirror; and there they saw themselves and Alice all children of the great King.
Nobody took much notice of poor Maddie, but I watched her pretty close, and saw the tears come into her eyes, though she let 'em run down her face before she'd pull out her handkerchief. Then she put up her veil and held up her head with a bit of a toss, and I saw her pride had helped her to bear it.
"Yes, it's very pretty here," said Maddie; but she didn't seem to feel about it as Alice did, who was in such good spirits that she could keep neither her feet nor her tongue still, but frisked about the green like a young deer, and chattered like a magpie, only in far sweeter tones. "This is my bower," said she, lifting up the drooping branches of a willow and shutting herself and Maddie within.
Little Maddie was allowed to sit up in honor of "Untle Tummy," but after awhile the little head bobbed quietly and the little chin fell between the verses of her mother's song, and "My Lady of the Eyes" took her by the hand and brought her over to us. "Tell papa good-night and Uncle Chum my good-bye, dear, and we'll go to bed."
If we'd come here they'd have all dropped that we were old friends, and then they'd have known all about us. 'Well, I'm glad you've lost your characters, says Maddie. 'You won't have to be so particular now, and you can come as often as Sir Ferdinand will let you. Good-bye. Billy's waving his hat. It wasn't long before I was in the saddle and off again.
Tabby goes up there to sleep on the soft cushion in the sun. And here's where I put my convolvuluses, and they climb up and run all over the window and make such a nice curtain, with the pink and blue and white and purple mixed with the green; and they reach up to the very chimney, Maddie, and hug it round, and then trail down upon the roof. Oh, I think it's elegant!
"I don't suppose you remember me," she asked. I put on my glasses and looked at her. No, I never then she put her handkerchief up to her lips covering the lower part of her face; it was the face of Madelene Hopkins. "Yes," said I, "I remember you perfectly, seventeen or eighteen years ago you used to sit on my knee and call me 'Untle Tummy. and I called you Maddie."
'Well done, Maddie! says Jim; 'so you may, just an hour or two after we're started. There won't be much likelihood of his overhauling us then. He won't be the first man that's been fooled by a woman, will he? 'Or the last, Jim, says Bella. 'What do you say, Captain? It seems to me we're doing all the talking, and you're doing all the listening. That isn't fair, you know.
I suppose we couldn't have a bath? 'Oh yes, you can, said Maddie; 'there's the creek at the bottom of the garden, only there's snakes now and then at night. I'll get you towels. 'In that case I think I shall prefer to wait till the morning, says the tall man. 'It will be something to look forward to.
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