It had been three years since Mary went home to England. Now she‘d come back to France, and I wished to show her how much I had changed. She would see that I was no longer the ill-favored child she’d once taunted. I was now a fine young lady ofthe court! But first I had to find her.
Permission to go in search of my sister would ever have been granted by the mother of the maids, the squint-eyed Madame Mathilde, and so I determined to go without asking. I dressed in one of my prettiest gowns and restlessly awaited my chance to slip away.
It had been three years since Mary went home to England. Now she‘d come back to France, and I wished to show her how much I had changed. She would see that I was no longer the ill-favored child she’d once taunted. I was now a fine young lady ofthe court! But first I had to find her.
Permission to go in search of my sister would ever have been granted by the mother of the maids, the squint-eyed Madame Mathilde, and so I determined to go without asking. I dressed in one of my prettiest gowns and restlessly awaited my chance to slip away.
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