[Mary Marie by Eleanor H. Porter]@TWC D-Link bookMary Marie CHAPTER V 4/150
(_I_ hadn't noticed it specially.) But he picked up my bag and magazine--but I guess he forgot the candy-box the nice young gentleman in front had just put on my window-sill, for when I got into my new seat the candy wasn't anywhere; and of course I didn't like to go back for it.
But the conductor was very nice and kind, and came in twice again to see if I liked my new seat; and of course I said I did.
It was very nice and shady, and there was a lady and a baby in the next seat, and I played with the baby quite a lot. It was heaps of fun to be grown up and traveling alone like that! I sat back in my seat and wondered and wondered what the next six months were going to be like.
And I wondered, too, if I'd forgotten how to be "Mary." "Dear me! How shall I ever remember not to run and skip and laugh loud or sing, or ask questions, or do _anything_ that Marie wants to do ?" I thought to myself. And I wondered if Aunt Jane would meet me, and what she would be like. She came once when I was a little girl, Mother said; but I didn't remember her. Well, at last we got to Andersonville.
John was there with the horses, and Aunt Jane, too.
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