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Ever since Anne's trying scene with her father, Grace had been doubly tender and kind to her, until the young girl seemed to expand under the happy influence. "Well, girlies, dear, we are the chosen six. I hope we shall be a credit to the class." "Don't talk so loudly, Nora. I feel as if we were surrounded by spies to-day. Everybody has been so mysterious and queer."
"This is something like our house," said Polly, looking around with a pleased expression at the unplastered room with its simple furnishings. "Then you will feel at home," said her aunt. "Take off your hats, girlies, while I see to dinner, for you know the necessity, Molly, of looking after things yourself up this way." Just here Luella appeared.
'Gee, whoa, haw, get up, girlies, he said to the horses, and those sagacious beasts immediately walked straight towards the spot whence his voice came, without paying the least attention to me, who was holding the reins so tight, as I thought.
"I'm going to close this door now, girlies," he whispered. "Lie still. Do not venture near it or the window, and don't be frightened. It looks as though some of the Morales gang were around here hoping to find the paymaster unguarded. We'll give them a lesson they'll never forget, if they attempt to attack him."
"You see, it's this way, girlies," said Cousin Ethel, after she had led the way to a pleasant corner of the veranda, and her guests were grouped about her. "A Charity Club to which I belong is going to have a sort of an entertainment which is not exactly a fair or a bazaar, but which is called a Peddler's Festival.
Polly recalled her recent drive through Forest Park, and could scarcely realize that the big, strong man who had made the time so pleasant for her was now weak and miserable from disease. David related incidents of his mother's life with her uncle when she was a small girl, one leading to another, until, suddenly, Dr. Dudley opened the door. "What!" he exclaimed. "My girlies not abed yet!
'Oh, you have plenty of courage of your own, said Mrs Constable. 'You can wile every girl in the place, but don't interfere with Hollyhock. 'Well, I 'm longing to be off to school, said Jasmine, 'and I only trust Holly will like the dear spot as much as we do. 'She 's certain sure to, girlies, if you don't tell her so. If you do, I won't answer for the consequences.
"Haven't you any children yourself?" asked Allee, not exactly understanding the drift of remarks. "No, dear. The angels came and took away our two little girlies before they were as big as you are." "But six is an awful many to raise at once," sighed Peace. "Do you think you can do it?" "I will try if you will come." "Do you live in Martindale?" "Yes." "Is your house big enough?"
Keineth felt her critical glance wander from her to the others even while she was answering her aunt's questions. Mrs. Lee read the consternation behind the children's polite greetings, for in her sweet voice she broke in: "I have been asking Mrs. Winthrop to join us to-night in our beach frolic you girlies must urge her!" "Oh, please do!" they cried together.
The Henkyl Hunters were no "chuffs", no conundrums, with the strange riddle of incivility up a sleeve. "'Invite them to the picnic and don't forget the cocoa!" Tanpa laughed. "Just like them! We did promise to lay in a fresh supply of sundries, as we pass through the town to-night if there's still a store left open. And that reminds me, girlies, that it's getting late.
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