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Conover happened to come into the drawing-room just as she was licking the stamp. She thumped it on the envelope with her palm and, looking round from the writing-desk against the wall, showed her mother a flushed and smiling face. "If anybody says I'm not good the goodest thing the cathedral has turned out for half a dozen centuries I'll tear her horrid eyes out from their sockets!"
Pete, puzzled that the girl did not join him in his play as usual, came back and stood in front of her and looked up into her face. She turned to the old pine tree, her familiar friend, and extended her arms to the God of her exalted faith. "Goddy, dear, goodest Goddy," she prayed, "bless my Frederick wherever he air an' help Tessibel to die in in the spring."
"Our mother do anything wicked!" exclaimed Polly. "Why she was the goodest person in all the world." "Don't you know policemen never do anything to good people. They don't do anything to bad people either but arrest them and then the judge decides what is to be done to them. The policemen are really good, kind men, as a rule." "I believe Cousin Dink was lying, anyhow," declared Polly stoutly.
"Yes, did she?" came from Verena's lips; and Pauline's eager eyes, and the eyes of all the other children, asked the same question. Penelope gave utterance to a great sigh. "I thought I'd be the goodest of you all," she said. "I maded up my mind that I just would; but I doesn't like Aunt Sophia, and I think I'll be the naughtiest." "No, you little goose; keep on being as good as you can.
"Don't be giddy; I'm hideous; so behave, and answer all my questions. Oh, I'm so unhappy. Answer me, is young people, or old people, goodest?" "You should say best, dear. Good, better, best. Why, old people, to be sure much." "So I thought; and that is why I am so puzzled. Then your papa and mine are much betterer will that do? than we are?" "Of course they are." "There he goes!
"No, John, it's no that, laddie, for I ken ye 'ill say what ye believe to be true withoot fear o' man," and she hesitated. "Come, out with it, auntie: you're my only mother now, you know," and the minister put his arm round her, "as well as the kindest, bonniest, goodest auntie ever man had." Below his student self-conceit he was a good lad, and sound of heart.
"The kindest, goodest, best me in the world," answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. "Why am I good to you?" "I don't know." "Have you ever done anything for me?" "No." "Then I must be good to you because I choose to be good to you." "Yes." "Why should I choose?" "Because because because you like." "Why should I like to be good to you?"
I'm the goodest little boy in this town, I 'spec'. Sometimes I get scared 'bout being so good 'cause I hear a woman say if you too good, you going to die or you ain't got no sense, one. You come on over here; you ain't trying to be good like what I'm trying, and Miss Minerva don't never do nothing a tall to you 'cepting put you to bed."
Do you think we ought to put on our best frocks the first day?" "We're company, and company always do put on their goodest things," said Mabel. "But not when they've come to stay so long. I suppose mamma would say, 'Use your own judgment, but I haven't any judgment, I'll ask Aunt Chloe." "La, honey, I don't know," said she. "Reckon I'll 'quire o' Miss Mariar."
"Well, sonny, I hope you will sleep soundly and well after saying your prayers like the goodest of little boys," sneered Hunt. "I shall sleep none the worse," returned Max pleasantly. "I'll bet not a bit better than I shall without going through any such baby-like performance."
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