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"Don't you think this is fun, Cousin Jack?" asked Marjorie, as she watched the crowds and the lights, and Old Ocean rolling big black waves up on the shore. "Yes, Mehitabel, I think it's gay. There's a certain something at this place that you never see anywhere else." "Yes, it's quite different from Seacote, isn't it? Everybody here seems to be in a hurry."

Nine o'clock came all too soon, and the children trooped off to bed, regretfully. "Shoo!" cried Cousin Jack, as the clock struck, "shoo, every one of you! Scamper, Mehitabel! Fly, Susannah! And hustle, Hezekiah!" With Cousin Jack clapping his hands and issuing his peremptory orders, the children ran laughing away, and scurried upstairs.

Eva confided to Kate that she thought Stevie was certainly like "the little girl with the curl," for if when he was "bad he was horrid," "when he was good he was very, very good;" and Mehitabel watched him closely, and hoped "he wasn't sickening for measles or Italian fever."

"'Item. To Mehitabel Craig, my only surviving sister after the flesh, I give what alone she can claim of me, and what, as a dying sinner, I have no right to withhold, my full pardon for all offences. "'Item. To my present friend and comforter, Mr. Egglestone, as a memento of my deep obligations to him, I give my watch. "'Item.

Mehitabel said they were both fond of their own way and loved to order people about; he guessed all boys loved their own way, whether they were nine or twelve years old. And then suddenly there came to Stevie the remembrance of a picture that hung in his mamma's room.

It was the most terrible smash-up for years." "How is Miss Morison?" Wynne asked, wondering if his voice betrayed the inward agitation without which he could not pronounce her name. "Oh, she's all right. Nervous and shaky, of course; but she's a sound, wholesome creature, and it won't take her long to recover her tone." "Yes; I brought her up," interposed Mehitabel, with grim self- complacency.

Hain't you noticed that little gravestone cough, jest the faintest in the world, and it don't come from a cold, and it hangs on. I tell you you can't cheat me, she's goin' jest as Mehitabel went, jest as Sally Ann Smith went, jest as Louisa Pearson went. I could count now on my fingers twenty girls that have gone that way. Nobody saw 'em goin' till they was gone."

"You're a nice, polite little girl, Mehitabel, and I'm glad to see you don't forget your manners. Now we have a good half hour before breakfast, what shall we play?" Kitty sidled over to Cousin Jack, and whispered, a little timidly, "You said we'd play Indians." "Bless my soul! A gentle little thing like you, Susannah, wanting to play Indians! Well, then that's what we play.

Cousin Jack was pretty good at this sort of thing, but his lungs gave out before Marjorie's did, for, this being her specialty, her warwhoops were of a most extreme and exaggerated nature. "Good gracious, Mehitabel, do hush up!" cried the Indian Chief, clapping his hand over his Squaw's mouth. "You'll have all the neighbors over here, and the police and the fire department!

While I will not say that the fair Mehitabel trifled with my young affections, I will say that she let me believe nay, induced me to believe by her manner that even as I regarded her she regarded me, and when at the end she disclaimed any intention to smash my heart into the myriad atoms into which it flew which have since most happily reunited upon Maria and asserted that she had let me play in the rose-garden of my exuberant fancy because I was "only a boy," my bump upon the hard world of fact was an atrociously hard one.