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And now, to cap the climax, I'm going to call on a girl about whom I know just one thing her name. By Jove, it's exactly like a story! I've got the data. If I had any gray matter I could probably work out the facts. "Take the St. Ives business. It's plain enough that some one wished those papers on me, intending to unwish them in short order once we got across.
"They're going out!" screamed Kathleen "walking out on their umbrella and broomstick legs. You can't stop them, Jerry, they re too awful!" "Everybody in the town'll be insane by tomorrow night if we don't stop them," cried Gerald. "Here, give me the ring I'll unwish them." He caught the ring from the unresisting Mabel, cried, "I wish the Uglies weren't alive," and tore through the door.
When he awoke in the morning he lay as usual, greeting a shining new day, till he realized that it was not a shining day; it was an ominous day; everything was wrong. That something had happened really had was a fact that sternly patrolled his room. His chief reaction was not repentance nor dramatic interest, but a vexed longing to unwish the whole affair. "Hang it!" he groaned.
"No more, or little more, for my mother came that instant and brought me to talk with the Chevalier de la Darante, who wished to ask me for next summer to Kamaraska or Isle aux Coudres, where he has manorhouses. Before I left Monsieur Doltaire, he said, 'I never made a promise but I wished to break it. This one shall balance all I've broken, for I'll never unwish it.
'Improve each other, I suppose, said Amabel, in a shy, simple tone, at which Charles laughed heartily. 'I wish I was as sensible as Laura! said she, presently, with a sigh. 'Never was a more absurd wish, said Charles, tormenting her hand still more, and pulling her curls; 'unwish it forthwith. Where should I be without silly little Amy?
I suppose you think the circumstances, whatever they may be, have warranted the act; but that act puts a stigma on your name which makes it unfit for any woman to bear; and if you have any spark of manhood left, you'll unwish the wish you will unthink the thought that I would wait or even want you ever to come back." A cry a startled, frightened cry rang through the rooms.
"No more, or little more, for my mother came that instant and brought me to talk with the Chevalier de la Darante, who wished to ask me for next summer to Kamaraska or Isle aux Coudres, where he has manorhouses. Before I left Monsieur Doltaire, he said, 'I never made a promise but I wished to break it. This one shall balance all I've broken, for I'll never unwish it.
If I can get hold of It I shall just wish we were all in a certain place. And we shall be. And then I can deal with both of them." "Deal?" "Yes, the ring won't unwish anything you've wished. That undoes itself with time, like a spring uncoiling. But it'll give you a brand-new wish I'm almost certain of it. Anyhow, I'm going to chance it." "You are a rotter, aren't you?" said the boy respectfully.
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