BAMBI
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“Why, Miss Bambi, honey! I didn’t see yo’ all comin’.”
“Here I am, and hungry, too.”
“How’s Mistah Jarvis?”
“All right. Breakfast, Ardelia, I perish.”
“Did you have a successful trip?” inquired her father.
“I did, very.”
“How did you find Babylon?”
“As Babylonish as ever.”
She seemed strangely disinclined for conversation, so her wise parent left her to her meditations and her breakfast. But he patted her as he passed to go out.
“We’re glad to have you back, my daughter.”
She brushed his cheek with her lips, understandingly.
