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The Lonesomest Doll
in surprise. Then Nichette told her all about it; how the Queen had always shut her out on those holidays, when her playthings were swept up and her mud pies broken.
“And you thought I did it, and so you did not love me. Oh, Nichette!” said the Queen reproachfully. “It was the horrid gardener. But I never told him to do that. I did not know there was a little girl who played here. You shall always come after this, and I shall play here with you. And we will never have it fixed up and spoiled.”
Nichette led the Queen to the rosebush where the four dolls were waiting in the same patient row. “This is my cubby-house,” she said, “and
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