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Updated: June 17, 2025
She evaded it by diving her head into his waistcoat, and saying, "There's father." "But he's gone to clear away that tree?" suggested Lance. One of Flip's significant silences followed. "Oh, I see," he laughed. "That was a plan to get him away! Ah!" She had released herself. "Why did you come like that?" she said, pointing to his wig and blanket. "To see if you'd know me," he responded.
He was unprepared for Flip's boldness and audacity, and when he saw that both barrels of the accusation had taken effect on the charcoal burner, who was rising with epileptic rage, he fairly turned and fled. The old man would have followed him with objurgation beyond the door, but for the restraining hand of Flip.
At last all were measured, and taking a pair of scissors, Miss Hart clipped the ends off the papers where the mark was, and thus each paper represented the exact width of a smile. The papers of each side were then placed end to end, and the whole length measured. The result was fifty-four inches of smile for Flip's side, and fifty-two for Gladys'. "Hooray, Mopsy!" cried King.
Yet a word or a gesture of Flip's was sufficient to change that manner, and when, with the fretful assistance of her father, she had prepared a somewhat sketchy and primitive repast, he questioned the old man about diamond-making. The eye of Dad kindled. "I want ter know how ye knew I was making diamonds," he asked, with a certain bashful pettishness not unlike his daughter's.
Flip's only response was to walk on toward the cabin, whence, with a vague complimentary suggestion of "droppin' in to pass the time o' day" with her father, the Postmaster meekly followed.
On the contrary, he believed it to be a master stroke of cunning. Fired by jealousy and Flip's indifference, he "deemed it his duty" using that facile form of cowardly offensiveness to betray Flip. Of which she was happily oblivious. Once away from the cabin, she plunged into the woods, with the parcel swung behind her like a knapsack.
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