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第34章 The Dramatic Club(3)

"Am I to have the white silk and the feather?"asked Merry,delighted with the silvery shimmer of the one and the graceful droop of the other,though both were rather shabby.

"You can use your own dress.I don't see why you should have everything,"answered Susy,who was at the mirror,putting a wreath of scarlet flowers on her red head,bound to be gay since she could not be pretty.

"I think I'd better keep the plume,as I haven't anything else that is nice,and I'm afraid Emma wouldn't like me to lend it,"added Annette,who was disappointed that Mabel was not to be the Beauty.

"I don't intend to act at all!"declared Mabel,beginning to braid up her hair with a jerk,out of humor with the whole affair.

"I think you are a set of cross,selfish girls to back out and keep your nice things just because you can't all have the best part.I'm ashamed of you!"scolded Molly,standing by Merry,who was sadly surveying her mother's old purple silk,which looked like brown in the evening.

"I'm going to have Miss Delano's red brocade for the Queen,and I shall ask her for the yellow-satin dress for Merry when I go to get mine,and tell her how mean you are,"said Juliet,frowning under her gilt-paper crown as she swept about in a red table-S cloth for train till the brocade arrived.

"Perhaps you'd like to have Mabel cut her hair off,so Merry can have that,too?"cried Susy,with whom hair was a tender point.

"Light hair isn't wanted,so Ju will have to give hers,or you'd better borrow Miss Bat's frisette,"added Mabel,with a scornful laugh.

"I just wish Miss Bat was here to give you girls a good shaking.Do let someone else have a chance at the glass,you peacock!"exclaimed Molly Loo,pushing Susy aside to arrange her own blue turban,out of which she plucked the pink pompon to give Merry.

"Don't quarrel about me.I shall do well enough,and the scarlet shawl will hide my ugly dress,"said Merry,from the corner,where she sat waiting for her turn at the mirror.

As she spoke of the shawl her eye went in search of it,and something that she saw in the other room put her own disappointment out of her head.Jill lay there all alone,rather tired with the lively chatter,and the effort it cost her not to repine at being shut out from the great delight of dressing up and acting.

Her eyes were closed,her net was off,and all the pretty black curls lay about her shoulders as one hand idly pulled them out,while the other rested on the red shawl,as if she loved its glowing color and soft texture.She was humming to herself the little song of the dove and the donjon,and something in the plaintive voice,the solitary figure,went straight to Merry's gentle heart.

"Poor Jilly can't have any of the fun,"was the first thought;then came a second,that made Merry start and smile,and in a minute whisper so that all but Jill could hear her,"Girls,I'm not going to be the Princess.But I've thought of a splendid one!"'Who?"asked the rest,staring at one another,much surprised by this sudden announcement.

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