"
"Will Miss Daisy tell Juanita better what she mean?"
"Why, you know, Juanita," said the child, wistfully, "they
dress up the people to look like the pictures; and they have
put me in some very pretty pictures; and in one I am to be
beautifully dressed to look like Queen Esther — with mamma's
jewels all over me. And there is another little girl who would
like to have that part, — and I do not want to give it to
her."
Juanita sat silent, looking grave and anxious. Her lips moved,
but she said nothing that could be heard.
"And, Juanita," the child went on — "I think, somehow, I like
to look better than other people, — and to have handsomer
dresses than other people, — in the pictures, you know."
Still Juanita was silent.
"Is it right, Juanita?"
"Miss Daisy pardon me. Who Miss Daisy think be so pleased to
see her in the beautiful dress in the picture?"
"Juanita — it was not that I meant. I was not thinking so much
of that. Mamma would like it, I suppose, and papa; — but I
like it myself."
Juanita was silent again.
"Is it right, Juanita?"
"Why do Miss Daisy think it not right?"
Daisy looked undecided and perplexed.
"Juanita — I wasn't quite sure.
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