NO CINDERELLA
"Call on me soon, and I'll forgive all the past."
"That I shall." But I made up my mind that I should call on Nancy first. Otherwise it would be dangerous.
I stood alone. It rather hurt to think one girl should remember me and that the other should absolutely forget. But supper brought me out of my cogitations. So once again I put away the slipper and looked at my supper-card. I was destined to sit at table four. I followed the pilgrims out to worship at the shrine of Lucullus.
Evidently there was no Cinderella; or, true to her condition in life, she was at this moment seated before her ash-heap, surrounded by strutting and cooi
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