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"Mayn't I come in, Honor? O, please let me! Mother said I might come and / ask; and I've brought you such a many pretty flowers. We've been up, / Teddy and I have, ever since five o'clock, looking for sweet orchids in / the south meadow. Do, O do let me in! I'll be as good as gold; and I / won't rumple your new frock one bit."
It was early morning yet on the eventful day which had been appointed / for Honor Blake's nuptials. Those early daylight hours had seemed very / long to the girl who, for the first time in her life, had slept a / troubled sleep; and yet, when little Jenny Clay, a chubby bright-eyed / child of seven, tapped at the bride's door, and vehemently implored to / be admitted, the big white-faced kitchen clock had but just struck the / hour of six, and it wanted still some four hours of the time when the / little girl, already half wild with excitement, would enjoy her / long-promised honour -- namely, that of being first bridesmaid to the / heroine of the day, her dearly-loved Honor Blake.