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The flickering candles made grotesque shadows on the walls; the house, after that noise, was as still as a tomb, and despite the comforting presence of their valiant chaperone, the girls kept close together for protection. "D-do you suppose it was only a s-suitcase?" stammered Violet. "Don't whisper in my ear you tickle," hissed Billie, and again they laughed hysterically.
"Oh, I don't know as I ought to " She was frightened, awed at Bacchic madness. "D-do you think it would be all right?" "Why not? Guess anybody's got a right to get cool night like this. Besides, they won't be back till 4 P.M. And you got to get cool. Come on." And he knew and he was sure that she knew that all he said was pretense.
He paused and looked at her questioningly for a moment. He wanted to say something and he was not sure he ought. His reverence for her little finenesses and reserves increased instead of wearing away. He was always finding out new things about her. "Say," he broke forth almost impetuously after his hesitation, "I wish you wouldn't call me Mr. Temple Barholm." "D-do you?" she fluttered.
"It's a very simple matter to arrange, if you wish it," remarked Shin Shira composedly. "D-do you really m-mean that it would be possible for you to make us as tiny as that?" stammered Lionel in his eagerness, his eyes bright with excitement. "I couldn't do it, but the fairies might," said the Dwarf, taking up the little yellow book which I had restored to him after our last adventure.
Edmund and Amos came to me. "How did you get through it, Ben?" "All right, but a few cuts. I hope I don't look as villanous as you or Amos." "I d-don't know how I look. B-But if I saw you or Edmund round my place looking as you d-do now, I'd shoot you at sight." Rogers ordered us to set fire to all the houses except those which were storehouses for corn.
Carpet Slippers raised his little head that was a hybrid between a peach and a billiard ball a peach as to the face, and a billiard ball as to the cranium and when he saw me sitting with lips tightly set and my desk trembling with my internal laughter, anger put a fresh coating of red upon both peach and ball. But he took no action at present. "I-I'll d-do one of these sums on the board for you."
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