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"I am taking your mother's place for the present, and I shall not retain a servant who is so disrespectful," answered Mrs. Pennypoker again. "I am surprised at you, Alice, for interfering in a matter which does not belong to you." "It does belong to me, too," returned Allie mutinously. "Janey's a splendid girl, and mamma just thinks everything of her.
She paused for one moment beside her cousin, without daring to trust her voice to speak; then she fled to the kitchen, and cast herself into Janey's arms, to cry as if her young heart were breaking. "Miss Allie, honey," Janey begged her; "what is it? Tell Janey what's de matter. Don' cry so, Miss Allie, don't." Allie was past heeding her words.
The boys had gone with Long Jerry to try to shoot squirrels; but they came back without having any luck before the girls were fairly in possession of Janey's kitchen. "Let us help aw, do!" cried Tom, smelling the molasses boiling on the range and leading the way into the kitchen. "You can't cook anything good to eat when there are boys within a mile, and they not know it," sighed Jennie Stone.
The more she pondered on the events of the morning, she could not see that either she herself or the two boys were in any way to blame for Marjorie's explosion, and as she forlornly sat down to the lunch table, she felt as if she were in part realizing the truth of Janey's prediction.
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