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'You see that dark arch just along the passage? Well, just inside there 'If you don't stop going on like that, said Jane, firmly, 'I shall scream, and then I'll faint so now then! 'And I will, too, said Anthea. Robert was not pleased at being checked in his flight of fancy. 'You girls will never be great writers, he said bitterly.
They could not see what was happening in the interview between Anthea and the Diamond Ring, and it seemed to them that she had had time if she had had money to buy everything in the shop before the moment came when she stood before them, her face wreathed in grins, as Cyril said later, and in her hand the charm.
Everyone enjoyed the journey except Robert and the few people they passed on the way. These mostly went into what looked like some kind of standing-up fits by the roadside, as Anthea said. just outside Benenhurst, Robert hid in a barn, and the others went on to the Fair. There were some swings, and a hooting tooting blaring merry-go-round, and a shooting-gallery and coconut shies.
Only just tell us why you wrote such an odd letter." "I don't know," said Cyril. "You see, Anthea wrote it in such a hurry, and it really didn't seem like stealing then. But afterwards, when we found we couldn't get down off the church-tower, it seemed just exactly like it. We are all very sorry"
I'm not humbugging." "Shut up, Bobs!" said Anthea. "Silence for the Squirrel's oration," said Robert. Cyril balanced himself on the edge of the water-butt in the backyard, where they all happened to be, and spoke. "Friends, Romans, countrymen and women we found a Sammyadd. We have had wishes.
'All Jane's been telling you is what it's going to be, Anthea interrupted, 'hundreds and hundreds of years from now. 'The little one is a prophetess, eh? said Caesar, with a whimsical look. 'Rather young for the business, isn't she? 'You can call her a prophetess if you like, said Cyril, 'but what Anthea says is true. 'Anthea? said Caesar. 'That's a Greek name.
It must be owned that Robert was at first but a half-hearted bandit, but when Anthea had borrowed from Martha the red-spotted handkerchief in which the keeper had brought her mushrooms that morning, and had tied up Robert's head with it so that he could be the wounded hero who had saved the bandit captain's life the day before, he cheered up wonderfully. All were soon armed.
'He says, the Phoenix remarked after some time, 'that they wish to engage your cook permanently. 'Without a character? asked Anthea, who had heard her mother speak of such things. 'They do not wish to engage her as cook, but as queen; and queens need not have characters. There was a breathless pause. 'WELL, said Cyril, 'of all the choices! But there's no accounting for tastes.
And, while he spoke, he rose to his feet, and lifting the sack with an effort, swung it across his shoulder, and set off toward the house. "Is it heavy, Shipmate?" "Awful heavy!" he panted, "but I don't mind that it's gold, you see!" But, as they crossed the rose-garden, Bellew laid a restraining hand upon his shoulder. "Porges," said he, "where is your Auntie Anthea?"
It was warm under the blanket and the hearthrug, and Jane snuggled up close to her sister; and Anthea cuddled Jane closely and kindly, and in a sort of dream they heard the rise of a wave of mewing as Robert opened the door of the nursery. They heard the booted search for baskets in the back kitchen.
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