THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER
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choosing out such gowns, petticoats, and head-clothes as might become them. This was a new trouble to Cinderella; for it was she who ironed her sister’s linen, and plaited their ruffles; they talked all day long of nothing but how they should be dressed.
‘For my part,’ said the eldest, ‘I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming.’
‘And I,’ said the youngest, ‘shall have my usual petticoat; but then, to make amends for that, I will put on my gold-flowered manteau, and my diamond stomacher, which is far from being the most ordinary one in the world.’
