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Often they went out to parties, or to dances, and on these occasions she had to act as their maid and help them to dress. Rosy-red did not mind; she was only happy when they were out of the house. Then only did she sing softly to herself, and the birds came to listen. And thus many unhappy years passed away. Once, when her father was away from home, her step-sisters went off to a wedding dance.
"I'll be your step-sister," said Midget, remembering Cinderella. "Not the cross kind." "No, the pleasant kind. All right, we'll be step-sisters, and will you come to see me often?" "Yes, and you must come over to my house." "I will, when mother'll let me. She hates to have me go anywhere." "Do you know," said Midget, in a spirit of contrition, "I thought you were 'stuck-up."
She glanced at rugs and curtains and chintz-covered chair; at the bowls of brilliantly colored leaves of the top of book-shelves and tables, and sniffed the pungent winter pinks, step-sisters to the proud chrysanthemums in the hall, and again she nodded her head. "What a happy creature you ought to be, Mary Cary! You've got so much; the chance to work, a dear home " "Dreaming!
And when the herald came to the house of Cinder-Maid's father the eldest of her two step-sisters tried on the golden shoe.
I was never sorry before that Di and I are only step-sisters no, not a bit sorry, though her mother had all the money, and brought it to my poor father; but now I wish I were Lady Mountstuart's niece, and that I had some of the coaxing, 'girly' ways Di can put on when she wants to get something out of people.
"True enough," rejoined they; "folks would laugh to see a Cinderella at a court ball." These two step-sisters were very cruel to Cinderella, and ill-used her much. Ah! what sweet friends are our own born sisters! there can be no substitutes like them in the whole wide world.
I made my observation that the dress, even in extreme cases of elderly prime, was very good in the case of the women, I mean; the men there, as everywhere with us, were mostly slovens; and I was glad to find that the good taste and the correct fashion were without a colour-line; there were some mulatto ladies present as stylish as their white sisters, or step-sisters.
There were three of them, for Lucrezia, the duke's illegitimate daughter, had found a kind mother in the duchess, and was brought up with her young step-sisters Isabella and Beatrice, until in 1487, she became the wife of Annibale Bentivoglio, and went to live in Bologna. Under Leonora's careful and vigilant eyes, these maidens were trained in all the culture of the day.
Even if she had been in the best of spirits, her arrival at the castle would have been a trying moment. It is never easy for one woman to face alone several of her sex, who, she knows, are waiting to criticise her. There were then staying with Lady Kingsborough her step-mother and her three unmarried step-sisters and several guests.
And there was another thing that struck me. Mr. Hamilton seemed fond of his step-sisters, but he treated them with reserve; the frank jokes that pass between brothers and sisters, the pleasant raillery, the blunt speeches, the interchange of confidential looks, were missing in the family circle at Gladwyn. Mr.
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