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Nichette

The lonesomest doll lay in her box in a corner of the Treasure Room in the southwest tower of the Queen’s palace. Around the palace was a high gray wall and a moat; beyond the moat was a walled-in garden; and beyond the garden again was a tiny white cottage covered with roses, where Nichette lived with her father and mother!

Pierre, Nichette’s father, was the porter of the palace, and under the eyes of the Grand Chamberlain he had charge of the keys to the

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