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I think," she went on, lowering her voice a little, and looking down gravely into Phil's earnest eyes, "I think he means mostly learning to be very good very, very good, you know." "Gooder than you?" said Phil. "Oh dear, yes; lots and lots gooder than me," replied Griselda. "I think you're very good," observed Phil, in a parenthesis. Then he went on with his cross-questioning.
When the bears have et me up in teenty snips, then they'll be saterfied, I guess, and wisht they'd tookened gooder care of me a little speck of a boy, lefted out in this dark, bear-y place, all by his lone self. O oo oo oh! and he wound up with a murderous yell, which had never failed before to bring the whole family to his side.
"Gooder than mother?" "I don't know your mother, so how can I tell how good she is?" said Griselda. "I can tell you," said Phil, importantly. "She is just as good as as good as as good as good. That's what she is." "You mean she couldn't be better," said Griselda, smiling. "Yes, that'll do, if you like. Would that be good enough for us to be, do you think?"
"Yes, indeed you are, Davy," said Anne, who never hesitated to give credit where credit was due. "I KNOW I'm gooder," said Davy confidently, "and I'll tell you how I know it. Today Marilla give me two pieces of bread and jam, one for me and one for Dora. One was a good deal bigger than the other and Marilla didn't say which was mine. But I give the biggest piece to Dora.
He took the child into his confidence and told her of the daily gain, or loss, in votes, as if she were his own age. She understood a little of all this, and tried hard to understand the rest, preaching between times to Georgianna how "the bad men were trying to beat Uncle Cyrus because he was gooder than they, but they couldn't, 'cause everybody loved him so."
"I would if I were driving. But I'm going to walk and it's too far for your eight-year-old legs. Besides, Paul is going with me and I fear you don't enjoy yourself in his company." "Oh, I like Paul lots better'n I did," said Davy, beginning to make fearful inroads into his pudding. "Since I've got pretty good myself I don't mind his being gooder so much.
Something awful has happened. Zillah Forsyth is dead. Really dead, I mean. And she died in great heroism. You remember Zillah Forsyth, don't you? She was one of my room-mates, not the gooder one, you know, not the swell, that was Helene Churchill. But Zillah? Oh you know! Zillah was the one you sent out on that Fractured Elbow case. It was a Yale student, you remember?
She is gooder than her mother, for she never took me away from bad people as she did." Not deeming it worth while to enter into any troublesome explanations, Mrs. Peters determined to suit her language to the child's comprehension, said simply, "Well, I hope she loves God, and will teach you to love him too." "O, she does love God, Mrs. Peters.
"And how came ye," said he, "first to meet with Dick?" Mary pressed her lips. "Oh! very well; don't tell if it ain't right, by no manner o' means. Do ye think that Dick intends to keep ye here always?" "Me not know." "Humph! An' you say he's good to ye?" "Oh yes," cried Mary with a sudden blaze of animation on her usually placid countenance, "him's good, very good gooder to me than nobody else."
They almost always did behave badly when they came to see Lady Bird; but it was rather a good thing, because she could warn her own children that, if they did the same, they would be severely punished. "Lady Green is too indulgent," she would say. "I want my children to be much gooder than hers. Mind that, Imogene."
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