Tell him to let you wear the roses I send for old times ' sake . I wish you every happiness , my dear . `` Your affectionate cousin , `` Corona Gordon . '' `` Oh , how sweet and lovely of her ! '' said Juliet gently , as she laid the letter down . `` And to think she was not even invited ! 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 , XXXXX she heard Juliet 's flying feet on the stairs .
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