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Updated: May 12, 2025
My father tells me, on an average three times a day, that I shall remain the same `Peggy-Pickle' all my life." "That sounds bad! So far as my remembrance goes, you used to be a mischievous little person, always getting into scrapes and frightening the wits out of your companions." "Ah!" sighed Miss Saville dolorously. "Ah-h!"
I thought you were in the country, and that you hated going out, and would never accept an invitation if you could help it!" "Circumstances alter cases! I was at the vicarage the other day when Mellicent's letter arrived, saying you were to be here to-night, and a sudden temptation seized me to have a look at you, and see what manner of young lady the years had made of Peggy-Pickle.
Such a genuine, Peggy-Pickle trick, he declared, was worth taking some trouble to enjoy, and went far towards consoling him for the advent of a fashionable young lady in the place of his mischievous little friend.
She was not hidden more than a minute, but in effect it seemed to have been a long, long time, for when the door reopened, the French hat had disappeared, and it was the real old Peggy-Pickle who smiled and nodded and peaked her brows beneath the scarlet cap. "The Tam o' Shanter! Rob has brought it back after all these years. He kept it until you could wear it again. Goodness, how touching!
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