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The Palace Beautiful

CHAPTER XIX
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Now I can breathe.

Oh, didn't I say that London was dazzling, and isn't it you three that has got the hearts of gold.

Say it all over again to me, please, Miss Jasmine.

What is it we're all a-going to do to-morrow ?" "Oh, what a silly, Poppy, you are," said Jasmine; "why even I do not get as excited as you do.

We are going out, and you are coming with us, and we are going to spend five shillings." Poppy's cheeks flushed a vivid crimson, her eyes sparkled, and her small feet began involuntarily to dance.
"I has set my heart on something beauteous," she said, "and, oh, dear, Miss Jasmine, you will do it, won't you?
You won't let none of them biting disappointments with which the air is choke full, as full as it is of smuts, come in the way.


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