Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden

Author:Rumer Godden [Godden, Rumer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447292753
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

‘In England it is the ginger beer ceremony,’ said Miss Happiness, and she comforted Miss Flower. ‘See, our Miss Nona knows how to arrange flowers almost as we do; she does not put too many in the vase.’ Miss Happiness did not know that there had been only one ninepence left.

‘And plum blossom means hope,’ said Miss Flower.

‘It is hope,’ said Miss Happiness. ‘Look, Flower, look!’

Nona had put the dolls on the pretty tray she was carrying to the playroom. She had stopped just inside the door, looking. Now Miss Flower looked too, and ‘Aaah!’ whispered Miss Flower.

On Tom’s work-bench stood the little house with its tiled roof, its tiny hall and the screen walls that slid, its two side walls and the niche. There was, of course, no chimney, but where the chimney might have been Tom had put a twig of green leaves for a bough.

‘How happy and gay they all are!’ said Miss Happiness.

‘One person isn’t happy,’ said Miss Flower, and suddenly she had a doll shiver. ‘Listen,’ said Miss Flower.

‘Belinda, have some ginger beer.’

‘I’m busy.’

‘Belinda, come and see the Japanese house with its new roof.’

‘I’m very busy.’

Belinda was still feeling left out. The next time she went into the playroom she gave Tom’s work-table a good shake, but Tom had made the house so well that nothing moved or broke. ‘I wish Japan were at the bottom of the sea!’ said Belinda; but it was not Japan that made her miserable, for as soon as she heard the story of Peach Boy again or thought about Little Peach she felt warm and comfortable; it was when she thought about the Japanese dolls’ house – ‘and Nona!’ said Belinda, gritting her teeth – she felt so jealous and cold and hard that she might have been a small iron Belinda.

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