How lovely they were ! How very large and fragrant ! It was as if all the grace and perfume and beauty and glory of those twenty lost summers were found here at once in them . When Miss Corona had them ready , she went to the door and called , `` Charlotte ! Charlotte ! '' Now Charlotta , having atoned to her conscience for the destruction of the green and yellow bowl by faithfully weeding the garden , a task which she hated above all else , was singing a hymn among the sweet peas , and her red braids were over her shoulders . This ought to have warned Miss Corona , but Miss Corona was thinking of other things , and kept on calling patiently , while Charlotta weeded away for dear life , and seemed smitten with treble deafness . After a time Miss Corona remembered and sighed . She did hate to call the child that foolish name with its foreign sound . Just as if plain `` Charlotte '' were not good enough for her , and much more suitable to `` Smith '' too ! Ordinarily Miss Corona would not have given in . But the case was urgent ; she could not stand upon her dignity just now . `` Charlotta ! '' she called entreatingly . Instantly Charlotta flew to the garden gate and raced up to the door . `` Yes 'm , '' she said meekly . `` You want me , Miss C'rona ? '' `` Take this box down to Miss Juliet Gordon , and ask that it be given to her at once , '' said Miss Corona , `` Do n't loiter , Charlotta . Do n't stop to pick gum in the grove , or eat sours in the dike , or poke sticks through the bridge , or -- '' But Charlotta had gone . * * * * * Down in the valley , the other Gordon house was in a hum of excitement .
Upstairs Juliet had gone to her invalid mother 's room to show herself in her wedding dress to the pale little lady lying XXXXX the sofa .
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