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"It's only Jemima," said Pennie. She was vexed that Ethelwyn had seen her at all, and there was something painful in having her held up to the general scorn. Ethelwyn began to giggle. "Why do you keep a guy like that?" she said. "Why don't you burn it?" "Well, so we do," replied Nancy, "very often. We burnt her only last week." "She was Joan of Arc," explained Pennie. "Only make-believe, you know.
Some were cut round, others square, and all were without crust; inside they found minced chicken, creamy and delicious, also ham and a little mustard, and best of all were the small, brown squares with peanut butter between. "It's like Christmas or a birthday, having these sandwiches," said Ethelwyn. "They're all different and all good, and each one seems better than the others."
But it was a delight to my heart to see how Ethelwyn could not be satisfied without treating the foundling in precisely the same fashion as one of her own. And if this was a necessary preparation for what, should follow, I would be the very last to complain of it.
Gazing about on my treasures, the thought suddenly struck me that I had never done as I had promised Judy; had never found out what her aunt's name meant in Anglo-Saxon. I would do so now. I got down my dictionary, and soon discovered that Ethelwyn meant Home-joy, or Inheritance. "A lovely meaning," I said to myself.
And when you do try, instead of trying to think, you want to be in Parliament all at once." "Do you apply that remark to me, sir?" demanded Ethelwyn. "You must submit to bear the sins of your kind upon occasion," I answered. "I am content to do that, so long as yours will help mine," she replied. "Then I may go on?" I said, with interrogation. "Till sunrise if you like.
"O dear! I shall never, never get over this, never!" said Beth, swallowing the lump in her throat. "I wouldn't have thought Bobby could have done it," said Ethelwyn, also swallowing. After their bath, they begged for their best slippers, silk stockings, and embroidered petticoats, and on having their hair done in their dress-up-and-go-away-from-home style.
"But I was more worried about you when I found you weren't in the house or grounds; I thought you might be lost, and I was about telephoning to the police station about it, when you came, and there was just time to catch the train." Then Ethelwyn got down, and went over to squeeze in on the other side of her mother.
"It is the common sense of Theseus in accounting for all the bewilderments of the night." "But," said Ethelwyn, "he was wrong after all. What is the use of common sense if it leads you wrong? The common sense of Theseus simply amounted to this, that he would only believe his own eyes." "I think Mrs. Walton is right, Turner," I said.
Her face was very grave, and the frown on her forehead had deepened, but Pennie knew by this time that Miss Unity was not cross when she looked like that, but sad. So, although there was something she wanted to say very much, she kept silence for a little while. Her thoughts went back to the day when Ethelwyn had broken the mandarin, and then to her plan for getting another, and how it had failed.
The animals were now visited, and introduced by their respective owners, but without exciting much interest in Ethelwyn, for whatever she saw it always appeared that she had something far better at home. Even Antony's lively talents failed to move her, and, though she could not say she had a nicer pig herself, she observed calmly: "Ah, you should see the animals in the Zoological Gardens!"
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