Aunt Johnnie Author:John Strange Winter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. " Before you marry, reflect; for it is a knot you cannot nntio." It must be confessed that Moy, together with Madame, turned out a brilliant s... more »uccess, so far as Miss Stonor's garments were concerned. The three evening dresses were simply perfection; nothing could have been better or more appropriate to the wearer or to the occasion than those which were carefully packed in Meg's trunks ready for her journey to Blankhampton. The gown "built" by Moy was something more than simply perfection; it transformed Meg into another being. I know not where the difference was, but it was marvellous anyway. " My dear, you will carry everything before you," said Mrs. Johnnie, when she had seen her niece arrayed in the wonderful garment. " You will carry everything before you ; I begin to feel very proud of you." To Meg it was quite a new sensation to have this interest taken in her by her gay and frisky aunt, and the morning that she was to leave for Blankhampton she really felt more gay herself than she had done at any time since she had left her father's house. The two ladies breakfasted together at ten o'clock in the tiny dining-room of the Doll's House " You must eat a good breakfast, Meg/ said Mrs. Johnnie kindly. Now, according to Meg, nobody could eat a good breakfast off such a board as Mrs. Johnnie provided ; bat that was immaterial. She began with a sardine —there were only three on the dish and she didn't like to take two—followed it up with a tiny strip of bacon, and then started, somewhat doubtfully, on an egg. There was only one egg, for, as I said before, Mrs. Johnnie didn't like London eggs, so she only had one cooked for Meg. Mrs. Johnnie, with a bit of bacon and a strip of toast, was looking at her letters. " Ugh ! " she exclaimed with disgust, ...« less