I wanted to send her an invitation , but Father said it would be better not to -- she was so hard and bitter against us that she would probably regard it as an insult . '' `` He must have been mistaken about her attitude , '' said Mrs. Gordon . `` It certainly is a great pity she was not invited , but it is too late now . An invitation sent two hours before the ceremony would be an insult indeed . '' `` Not if the bride herself took it ! '' exclaimed Juliet impulsively . `` I 'll go myself to Cousin Corona , and ask her to come to my wedding . '' `` Go yourself ! Child , you ca n't do such a thing ! In that dress ... '' `` Go I must , Momsie . Why , it 's only a three minutes ' walk . I 'll go up the hill by the old field-path , and no one will see me . Oh , do n't say a word -- there , I 'm gone ! '' `` That child ! '' sighed the mother protestingly , as she heard Juliet 's flying feet on the stairs . `` What a thing for a bride to do ! '' Juliet , with her white silken skirts caught up above grasses and dust , ran light-footedly through the green lowland fields and up the hill , treading for the first time the faint old field-path between the two homes , so long disused that it was now barely visible in its fringing grasses and star-dust of buttercups . Where it ran into the spruce grove was a tiny gate which Miss Corona had always kept in good repair , albeit it was never used . Juliet pushed up the rusty hasp and ran through . Miss Corona was sitting alone in her shadowy parlour , hanging over a few of the bride roses with falling tears , when something tall and beautiful and white , came in like a blessing and knelt by her chair .
`` Cousin Corona , '' said a somewhat breathless bride , `` I have come XXXXX thank you for your roses and ask you to forgive us all for the old quarrel . ''
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