Page 55 - The Little sister of Wilifred

Well, I know you will come out all right.

There 3s no trouble about you, who are
so awfully clever, I wonder what I can

be ? 11

“ W hat do you want to be, d ear?”
asked the young man very gently, as he

lifted the poor little thing on his knee.
“ There was once a poor washerwoman

who became the Empress of: Russia.3'
41 Oh, 1 don’t want to be the Empress

of Russia," said Peggy, rather dolefully.

“ 1 ’ve never been an empress yet and I
don’t know as I should like it. 1 don’t

know how to speak Russian, and it ’s so

far away you would never get to see me.”
L( Well, yon are not obliged against

your will to be the Empress of Russia,'1
Bolander reminded her, “ and there are

lots of other things. For instance, yon
might be a prim a donna and fra la la

yourself into a fortune. How does that