The Annam Jewel (2016)
“It was a very nice room. Two long windows opened upon a garden of lawns set with cedar trees, and of borders all golden with daffodils.
Rose Ellen had a pink colour in her cheeks. Her brown eyes shone. Her short curls had been brushed until they looked like dark gold. She wore a brown linen overall with buttercups and daisies worked on it, and in her arms she held Augustabel, rather pale from a drastic washing.
“Oh, Peter de—ah,” she said, and then stopped because she saw the daffodils.
Mrs. Mortimer came into the room behind her and asked Peter if he had slept well. After that she looked at Rose Ellen all the time.
“I’m going to make clothes for Augustabel, Peter,” said Rose Ellen. She nodded at Peter over her bread and milk.
Augustabel had a chair of her own and a little bowl from which she too might eat bread and milk if she chose.
“I’m going to make a velvet frock, a blue velvet frock, Peter, an’ a satin frock, an’ a white woolly frock. Dearest says she will help me.”
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