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Faith could well believe her, and from that moment the friendship between the two girls was finally cemented. In a hundred small ways Peg proved herself nobly. She helped Faith through the long, weary days, taking extra work upon her own capable shoulders to save the younger girl; shielding her many times from the petty disagreeablenesses of the room and the sharp tongue of Miss Dell.
They were not only always in the house, that is one of them, smoking his old pipe and blackening up the walls, but they looked so shabby, and kept the girl so close, and if they did go out, came in at such unheard of hours. It was enough to drive her crazy; yet the money, the money "Yes," said I, "I know; and the money ought to make you overlook all the small disagreeablenesses you mention.
Randolph that evening, "how do you like your new play that you are all so busy about?" "I like it pretty well, papa." "Only pretty well! Is that the most you can say of it? I understood that it was supposed to be an amusement of a much more positive character." "Papa, it is amusing but it has its disagreeablenesses." "Has it? What can they be? Or has everything pleasant its dark side?"
And now Oswald felt almost sure that his disagreeablenesses, though not exactly curses, were coming home to roost just as though they had been. "You're missing your beauty sleep, Stokes," we heard our Viking remark. "I'm not missing anything else, though," replied the coastguard. "Like half a dozen mackerel for your breakfast?" inquired Mr. Benenden in kindly accents.
Randolph that evening, "how do you like your new play that you are all so busy about?" "I like it pretty well, papa." "Only pretty well! Is that the most you can say of it? I understood that it was supposed to be an amusement of a much more positive character." "Papa, it is amusing but it has its disagreeablenesses." "Has it? What can they be? Or has everything pleasant its dark side?"
Presently, in fact, he continued: "Yes; despite the rain and cold and everything else, I consider life to be not quite intolerable." "Not quite intolerable in what?" "Not quite intolerable in the fact that at least I am bound to the service of no one save God. For if disagreeablenesses have to be endured, at all events they come better from Him than from one's own species."
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