“He has brought you little luck.”
“It’s a word I should never use in connection with him.”
“Well, I will leave you, and may you be prosperous. I don’t know what else I can say, except that you will forgive me for the news I brought.”
So saying, he turned about, and went away again.
And the old work began once more.
CHAPTER XX
A SIMPLE CONVERSATION
One day, when Rosalie had about completed the stone she was engaged upon, the Governor sent for her, by the frog.
“And I think,” said Brightcoat, for Rosalie had changed its name, not liking Croaker, “that it would not be at all a bad plan for us to look and see if there are any new clothes anywhere about. This old dress you are wearing is most worn and shabby.”
“There are none,” said she. “I have looked many a time, and have never found anything except the coarse brown apron I wear to protect my dress from the soil.”
“Well, there’s a time, and not a time, for looking for things. Suppose we look in the little wardrobe together now. If you stay dinner with the Governor, you must be fairly suitably dressed for it.”