귀여운 작은 메이드 (영어 원서 읽기
귀여운 작은 메이드 (영어 원서 읽기: A Sweet Little Maid)
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;"Is yuh asleep, Miss Dimple?"
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;"No," said Dimple, drowsily.
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;"I'm are."
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;"Why, Bubbles," replied Dimple, "if you were asleep you wouldn't be talking."
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;"Folks talks in their sleep sometimes, Miss Dimple," answered Bubbles, opening her black eyes.
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;"Well, maybe they do, but your eyes are open now."
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;"I have heerd of people sleepin' with their eyes open," returned Bubbles, nothing abashed.
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;"O, Bubbles, I don't believe it; for that is how to go to sleep; mamma says, 'shut your eyes and go to sleep,' she never says, 'open your eyes and go to sleep;' so there!"
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;Bubbles sat thoughtfully looking at her toes, having nothing to say when Dimple brought her mamma into the question.
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;"I'll tell you what, Bubbles," said Dimple,10 after a moment's pause, rising from the long grass where the two had been sitting. "Let's play Indian. You make such a lovely Indian, just like a real one. I am almost afraid of you when you are painted up, and have feathers in your head."
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;Bubbles grinned at the compliment.
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