"I've seen it
for a long time. You are the very image of my dear Prince. You have
got just the same colored eyes, and just the same curly hair, and
both your foreheads are broad and white. It's perfectly natural,"
continued Daisy, "for you are both geniuses, and all geniuses must
have a look of each other."
Hannah had old-fashioned ideas on many subjects. One of these was that
people could not remain too long in mourning. She liked very deep
black, and wished those who had lost relations to wear it for a long,
long time. The girls, therefore, were quite amazed when she suggested
that they should all go to Mrs. Ellsworthy in white. They began to
consider her quite an altered Hannah; but Jasmine took her advice, and
bought many yards of soft flowing muslin, which the old servant helped
her dear young ladies to make up.
At last the day and hour arrived when, as Primrose said sorrowfully,
"Our fate is to be sealed and we are to bid 'Good-bye' to dear
independence."
The girls, looking as sweet as girls could look, arrived at Mrs.
Ellsworthy's at a fairly early hour in the afternoon. The good little
lady received them with marked tenderness, but said, in an almost
confused manner, and by no means with her usual self-possession that a
slight change had been found necessary in the afternoon's programme,
and that the meeting of friends and acquaintances to hear their future
plans was not to take place at her house after all.
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