NO CINDERELLA
was a time when you held me on your knees."
"What?"
"It is indeed so."
"Confess, then, that you were properly spanked. . . . Heavens and earth, wherever did you come from?" she exclaimed suddenly. "Sit down be side me instantly!" And she called me by name.
It was the third time I had heard it that night. I had heard it so infrequently that I liked the sound of it.
"And it is really you?" pushing me off at arm's length the better to observe the changes that had taken place. "You grow more like your father; if you hadn't that beard you would be the ex-
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