`` Why , a bride , of course -- a bride all in white with a lovely misty veil . I 've never seen one , but I can imagine what she would look like . I do n't ever expect to be a bride myself . I 'm so homely nobody will ever want to marry me -- unless it might be a foreign missionary . I suppose a foreign missionary might n't be very particular . But I do hope that some day I shall have a white dress . That is my highest ideal of earthly bliss . I just love pretty clothes . And I 've never had a pretty dress in my life that I can remember -- but of course it 's all the more to look forward to , is n't it ? And then I can imagine that I 'm dressed gorgeously . This morning when I left the asylum I felt so ashamed because I had to wear this horrid old wincey dress . All the orphans had to wear them , you know . A merchant in Hopeton last winter donated three hundred yards of wincey to the asylum . Some people said it was because he could n't sell it , but I 'd rather believe that it was out of the kindness of his heart , would n't you ? When we got on the train I felt as if everybody must be looking at me and pitying me . But I just went to work and imagined that I had on the most beautiful pale blue silk dress -- because when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while -- and a big hat all flowers and nodding plumes , and a gold watch , and kid gloves and boots . I felt cheered up right away and I enjoyed my trip to the Island with all my might . I was n't a bit sick coming over in the boat . Neither was Mrs. Spencer although she generally is . She said she had n't time to get sick , watching to see that I did n't fall overboard .
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