Bebee

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Bebee, by OuidaThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: BebeeAuthor: OuidaRelease Date: November 1, 2004 [eBook #13912]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEBEE***E-text prepared by Sara Peattie, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading TeamBÉBÉEOr, Two Little Wooden ShoesbyLOUISA DE LA RAMÉE ("OUIDA")1896CHAPTER I.Bébée sprang out of bed at daybreak. She was sixteen.It seemed a very wonderful thing to be as much as that—sixteen—a woman quite.A cock was crowing under her lattice. He said how old you are!—how old you are! every time that he sounded his clarion.She opened the lattice and wished him good day, with a laugh. It was so pleasant to be woke by him, and to think that noone in all the world could ever call one a child any more.There was a kid bleating in the shed. There was a thrush singing in the dusk of the sycamore leaves. There was a calflowing to its mother away there beyond the fence. There were dreamy muffled bells ringing in the distance from manysteeples and belfries where the city was; they all said one thing, "How good it is to be so old as that—how good, howvery good!"Bébée was very pretty.No one in all Brabant ever denied that. To look at ...