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"It will give us all pleasure." "I am only afraid it will break in upon your morning's work," remarked Ethelwyn. "O, that is not of the least consequence," he rejoined. "In fact, as I have just been saying to Mr. Walton, I am not working at all at present. This is pure recreation." As he spoke he turned towards his easel, and began hastily to bundle up his things.
"Ethelbert, not Ethelwyn, Pennie," Miss Grey would say for the twentieth time, and then with a little impatient shake Pennie would wake up from her day-dreams, and try to fix her mind on the matter in hand.
Ethelwyn and Beth were preparing a tea party in the doll house. "O Katie, how nice!" said Ethelwyn. "We'll put it in the tea party. We were coming over to get you and Nora to come; there are some beautiful iced cakes coming up in a minute." "I can't stay," said Katie feebly, "I feel kind of sick inside."
Ethelwyn disappeared like a flash, and, sure enough, under the carpet's edge she could see sticking out the little white corner of the envelope. She knelt down and pulled it out, then ran back. "We'll come right over in a minute, Bobby," she called happily. "We're pretty nearly all dressed for fear you'd remember you had forgotten " "All right, hurry up," called up Bobby.
As she spoke a step sounded in the passage, and with one bound Ethelwyn regained her old place in the window-seat and turned her head away. Pennie remained standing by the fire, with a startled guilty look and a little perplexed frown on her brow.
She pressed gifts upon her, and kisses, and was anxious to sit quite close to her and hold her hand; but Pennie was proof against all this now. It had no effect upon her at all, and she even looked forward with a feeling of positive relief to the next day, when she would say good-bye to the once-adored Ethelwyn.
"Because," said Ethelwyn, "something may happen yet to make him think of us." So mother let them have on what they liked, for she was very sorry for them.
"What a lovely night it is!" said Ethelwyn, who had come into my study where I always sat with unblinded windows, that the night and her creatures might look in upon me and had stood gazing out for a moment. "Shall we go for a little turn?" I said. "I should like it very much," she answered. "I will go and put on my bonnet at once." In a minute or two she looked in again, all ready.
So we should be thankful, instead of wishing we had a candy store in the family, and being sorry we have to set examples for other kids. No! No! No! children, I mean. That's all, and I hope you won't forget all I've told you." "Let's play church now," said Ethelwyn promptly, "and I choose to be preacher, because I know about Moses and Abiram. The choir will please sing Billy Boy."
"Well, I shall wait till she finds out," said Ethelwyn, "and if you tell her before I'll never never speak to you again, and I won't have you for my friend any longer." "I'm not going to tell," said Pennie, drawing herself up proudly, "unless she asks me straight out. But I know you ought to."
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