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LUCY.
By E. NESBIT.
THE other day an old gentleman was turning out an old desk, and in the drawer politely termed secret he found a withered rose that a girl had given him, and a bit of old ribbon that had been smart and brisk when she wore it. Also he found a little oblong book with a yellow morocco back, edged and clasped with tarnished gilt, a book that had nothing to do with the girl, who was nobody in particular, and whose name, even, he had forgotten long and long ago. But the little book he had not forgotten; because it was his first diary. On the fly-leaf was written in the violet ink that does not fade—
"To dear Peter, from Mamma, with best love."
And the old gentleman remembered how, in a velvet suit with an embroidered collar, he had coaxed mamma to spend a shilling on that book at the fancy shop near Aunt Ingram's house—the fancy shop which was also the toy-shop and the circulating library.
He read the entries—they were not many; at nine years old one does not keep a diary for many days.
and so on L.L.L. for a fortnight. Then the entries ceased because mamma came back from Switzerland and swept in to where, wrapped in dreams, he sat over a lonely bread-and-butter-and
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