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"And all the Christ Child's other gifts. / . but still -- but still -- / The doll seem'd all my waking thoughts to fill. " / _The Doll that ne'er was Mine._
THERE were six of them, beginning with Helen and ending with Baby, and as Helen was only twelve and Baby already five, it is easy to understand that they were all pretty near of a size. But they weren't really princesses. That was all Jinny's planning. Indeed most things which were nice or amusing or at all "out-of-the-way" were Jinny's planning.