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They were down once more at the ladder's bottom rung, depleted in spirit, less young than formerly, and with no idea of which way to turn. Van meant to fight, if the slightest excuse could be discovered. His partners would back him, with their lives. But he and they, as they looked their prospects fairly in the face, found themselves utterly disarmed.
"And can't anybody see me if I go up the painter's ladder?" asked Sue, who was feeling most uncomfortable, being clammy and wet. "Nobody'll see you!" declared Charlie. "The ladder's away off on one side of the sun parlor. Mary can't see you from the kitchen, and your mother and the company can't see you." "Is the painter there?" Sue went on.
Now, at the ladder's head, everything was as I had seen it in the mind's picture; and even before I made the top fresh spray would shower upon my face, while the sea sounded as though its waves were breaking almost at my very ears.
"Yes, Auntie Lisbeth never came to kiss me good-night, an' so I can't go to sleep, Uncle Dick!" "Why that alters the case, certainly." "Yes, an' the ladder's in the tool-house." "Imp," I said, as I turned to follow Benjamin, "oh, you Imp!"
She wore a white print gown beneath her cloak, and a small bonnet of black straw decorated with sham cowslips. The cloak, hitching for a moment on the ladder's side, revealed a beaded reticule that hung from her waist, and clinked as she descended.
Let us lift up our cry: 'Perfect that which concerneth me, forsake not the works of thine own hands, and we shall have for answer the ancient word, fresh as when it sounded long ago from among the stars to the sleeper at the ladder's foot, 'I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. II. Notice the relation of the divine working to our thoughts and desires.
He had almost reached the top when a sudden pressure above forced his feet off the rung and his body over the ladder's side; and there he dangled, hooked by his armpit. Someone grabbed his leg, and, pulling him into place, thrust him up over the shoulders of the tall Royal in front.
But Hoak had no care for self-preservation. His sole mission was reprisal. The fight about the ladder's foot had waned. With a leap that carried him half-way up and an agility that knew no thwarting the madman made the upper level.
"Yes, there is!" suddenly exclaimed Charlie. "How?" asked Bunny Brown. "Up the painter's ladder," went on Charlie. "They're painting the roof of your sun parlor. And the ladder's right there. We can get Sue up the ladder to the roof of the sun parlor, and there's a second-story window she can get in so nobody can see her, and change her things." "Oh!
"The ladder's in the tool-house, Uncle Dick Ben'll show you. Will you get it, please?" he pleaded in a wheedling tone. "First of all, my Imp, why did your Auntie Lisbeth send you to bed had you been a very naughty boy?"
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