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She pointed at a corner so far off on the other side that no one could be distinguished, and then was gone, with a smile flashed over her shoulder, and her hireling trying to keep up with her. "We're all very proud of Lili's having a hired man," said Burnamy. "We think it reflects credit on her customers." March had begun his breakfast with-the voracious appetite of an early-rising invalid.
I was almost as much loved and petted as if I had been Lili's own sister. Her parents had come from North Germany. Her father had been induced to buy the factory by the advice of an acquaintance, and they expected to remain permanently in our neighborhood.
Wili sat by his side, meaning to study his little piece, but first he looked at the birds in the branches, and then at the laborers in the field, and then at the red apples upon the tree, for Wili loved visible things, and it was only with the greatest difficulty, and generally with Lili's assistance, that he could get the invisible into his little head.
To be sure, Dora had crept down again to peer through her opening in the hedge, and she was now listening as if enchanted, to Lili's gay music. She came back at once at the sound of her aunt's voice, and took her appointed place at the window where she was to sit and sew all day. "Well, we cannot stay here, that is certain," said Mrs. Ehrenreich as she left the room.
"Yes, yes, Papa" it was now Wili's and Lili's turn "and we have found such a hard riddle, so hard that even Rolf couldn't guess it. It is really a rebus." "If you will wait long enough I can get it, I am sure," said Rolf. "We seem to have a riddle in every comer," said their father. "I believe we have a riddle-fever, and one catches it from another.
Lili's plans were all made; she had thought out all the details, for she was an observing little maiden, and knew the uses of many things and how to turn them to her own purposes. She chose one of the middle-sized wash-tubs for an ark. There would be room enough for all the animals, if they would sit quietly in their places. Of course the animals were Schnurri and Philomele.
It was more than an hour before Burnamy caught Lili's eye, and three times she promised to come and be paid before she came.
Meantime, Pons' proud silence and withdrawal to the Mons Aventinus of the Rue de Normandie had, as might be expected, impressed the Presidente, not that she troubled herself much about her parasite, now that she was freed from him. She thought, with her charming daughter, that Cousin Pons had seen through her little "Lili's" joke. But it was otherwise with her husband the President.
Meantime, Pons' proud silence and withdrawal to the Mons Aventinus of the Rue de Normandie had, as might be expected, impressed the Presidente, not that she troubled herself much about her parasite, now that she was freed from him. She thought, with her charming daughter, that Cousin Pons had seen through her little "Lili's" joke. But it was otherwise with her husband the President.
She pointed at a corner so far off on the other side that no one could be distinguished, and then was gone, with a smile flashed over her shoulder, and her hireling trying to keep up with her. "We're all very proud of Lili's having a hired man," said Burnamy. "We think it reflects credit on her customers." March had begun his breakfast with-the voracious appetite of an early-rising invalid.
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