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Jewels do not make people any happier, Belle! 'I should think not! exclaimed Belle. 'I'm sure my back perfectly aches with stooping, and so does Cathie's. There! that big topaz has just gone and rolled under the sideboard, and mother will be so angry if I don't get it out! It is too bad of you, Priscilla! I believe you do it on purpose!
Alfred Cathie's familiar handwriting, and on opening it found that it contained another, addressed to me in my own, and unstamped. For the moment I was puzzled, but immediately knew that it must be from George. I tore it open, and found eight closely written pages, which I devoured as I have seldom indeed devoured so long a letter.
"Well, you'd better," advised Alexia philosophically, "because she is, you know. Do laugh again, Polly; it's good to hear you." "I can't help it," said Polly, "Cathie asked such a funny question." "Cathie's generally a goose," said Alexia coolly. "Thank you," said Cathie, a tall girl, with such light hair and sallow face that she looked ten years older than her fourteen summers.
To be called a goose by two persons in the course of an hour was too much for Cathie's endurance, and flinging off the girl's arm, she cried out passionately, "I won't stay; I'm going home!" and rushed out the door. Dr. Fisher turned from a deliberate look at the girl's white cheeks, as she ran past, to the flushed ones before him. "I'm very sorry that anything unpleasant has happened.