. Little 'Jim Crow' : e altre storie per i bambini . Ght guardare dalla finestra.Thus lei sedette su una sorta di trono. Uponher silken lap Lay aperto il dono prezioso del suo padre adorato, la vecchia Bibbia indossata, eher waxen, mano minuscola steso sulla pagina del principe. Il suo gomito destro si appoggiò sul tableat suo lato, e il suo mento increspato si riposò nel suo mano i suoi capelli biondi e giusti caddero sulle spalle, e i suoi grandi occhi marroni si guardavano dritto nella gloria scintillante del sole-^impostare il cielo. In silenzio signorile aveva dato audi-ence alla morte. Nemmeno la sua presenza di terrifyingpresence poteva farle rompere il suo PROM-ise al padre:

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. Little "Jim Crow" : and other stories for children . ght look from the window.Thus she sat upon a sort of throne. Uponher silken lap lay open the precious gift ofher adored father, the worn old Bible, andher waxen, tiny hand lay on the printedpage. Her right elbow leaned on the tableat her side, and her dimpled chin rested inher hando Her fair, blond hair fell on hershoulders, and her great brown eyes lookedstraight into the flaming glory of the sun-^set sky. In stately silence she had given audi-ence to Death. Not even his terrifyingpresence could make her break her prom-ise to her father: Sire, I 11 speak nomore! So she passed, without a fathers kiss, without a mothers breast to pillow herdying head upon, without even the famil- 13 194 A LITTLE ROYAL PRINCKSS iar sound of her babv brothers laughter •/ in her ears. So she passed—on vary, thougli puiv, unsullied little feet--bravely, calmly, gravely passed through the open door.A little royal princess of England. <io<lrest her soul! THE PRINCESS PORCELAIN THE PRINCESS PORCELAIN. In joining contrasts lieth loves delight. E had always been interested inthe frail little thing. They werein the same row—the outer one—of the same oval bed, thatwas crowded with fellow-pansies, and hewas quick to notice that by the gardenerscarelessness the space between himselfand his right-hand neighbor was widerthan it should have been—a fact that an-noyed him even then, and later on becamea source of real distress in his otherwisequiet life. This little right-hand neighbor seemedto attract by her very weakness and slow-ness of growth. He came, himself, of aDutch strain, and showed it in his sturdygrowth of stem, and the body and velvetof his blossom. King of the Blacks, he 197 14 198 THE PRINCESS PORCELAIN was called, and really he deserved hisname—though one intensely dark purplofellow who had been called black thesummer before remarked, somewhat ma-liciously, that the title of King of theBlacks would never pay Imn f

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