"It is kind of you, Angelique," replied Amelie, returning her caress
warmly, but without effusion. "We have simply come with our people
to assist in the King's corvee; when that is done, we shall return
to Tilly. I felt sure I should meet you, and thought I should know
you again easily, which I hardly do. How you are changed--for the
better, I should say, since you left off conventual cap and
costume!" Amelie could not but look admiringly on the beauty of the
radiant girl. "How handsome you have grown! but you were always
that. We both took the crown of honor together, but you would alone
take the crown of beauty, Angelique." Amelie stood off a pace or
two, and looked at her friend from head to foot with honest
admiration, "and would deserve to wear it too," added she.
"I like to hear you say that, Amelie; I should prefer the crown of
beauty to all other crowns! You half smile at that, but I must tell
the truth, if you do. But you were always a truth-teller, you know,
in the convent, and I was not so! Let us cease flatteries.
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