Shame upon you when I look up to you so much and expect you
to help me be brave. I will go. I will arrange myself in some way. Oh!
why am I not different; I wish I were as straight as the queen," and
for that first time in her life she bewailed her beauty, because it
stood between her and Brandon.
She soon coaxed him out of his despondency, and we began again to plan
the matter in detail.
The girls sat on Brandon's cloak and he and I on the camp-stool and a
box.
Mary's time was well occupied in vain attempts to keep herself covered
with the cloak, which seemed to have a right good will toward Brandon
and me, but she kept track of our plans, which, in brief, were as
follows: As to her costume, we would substitute long trunks and
jack-boots for shoes and hose, and as to doublet, Mary laughed and
blushingly said she had a plan which she would secretly impart to
Jane, but would not tell us. She whispered it to Jane, who, as serious
as the Lord Chancellor, gave judgment, and "thought it would do.
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