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"I wish to goodness we knew who it was!" "A reng-lidder?" repeated the March Hare. "I don' know zat word. But if you mean ze boy who done ze much most ze baddest of all ze bads ah, I know him! Yes, I mark him long, long time. An' I wait." "What d'ye mean, Harey? Who is it?" "Nev-er mat-ter," said the March Hare mysteriously; and at that point Mr. Anderson re-entered the room.
'Oh, aunty! what does it all mean? cried Patty, who had looked both pleased and ashamed as she glanced from one picture to the other. 'It means, dear, that the goods and bads got into the bed-quilt in spite of you, and there they are to tell their own story. The bun and the lost tail, the posy you took to poor Lizzie, and the trouble you bore so sweetly.
Then he would rise, and see multitudes standing together, and God sitting on a cloud with a very large book in his hand he called it "Bible book" and would beckon him to stand before him while he opened the book, and looked at the top of the pages, till he came to the name of John B . In that page he told me, God had written all his "bads," every sin he had ever done: and the page was full.
Fortunately, however, the house has been much built on to of late years and what goods, or bads, are already amassed can all be stowed away in a single east wing.
Rosamond did not care particularly which way they went, but she did mind Justin's masterful manner of settling things according to his own wishes, so there was a slight cloud over the little party following him, and some half-muttered 'too bads' and 'never lets us choose, from Pat and Archie.
Reginald is a nice boy, but he's sort of pompous and conceited, and thinks he's better than any one else in the world. Little Florelle is a dear, but she cries so easily that I can't have much fun with her. But there, now I've told you all the bads, I'll tell you some of the goods.
The goods I keep where I can see them, and the bads I lock up tight, but they get out, and I have to keep putting them in and squeezing them down, they are so strong. The thoughts I play with when I am alone or in bed, and I make up and do what I like with them. Every Sunday I put my room in order, and talk with the little spirit that lives there, and tell him what to do.
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