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Through all her turmoil of spirit the observation drew a laugh from Susy. "Oh, a family of my own I don't deserve one, the way I'm behaving to your " Junie still considered her. "My dear, a change will do you good: you need it," she pronounced. Susy rose with a laughing sigh. "I'm not at all sure it will! But I've got to have it, all the same.
Junie had been enlightened, and Angele stunned, by the minuteness of Susy's instructions; and the latter, waterproofed and stoutly shod, descended the doorstep, and paused to wave at the pyramid of heads yearning to her from an upper window. It was hardly light, and still raining, when she turned into the dismal street.
But what worries me is the idea of having to go away away from Paris for the whole day, with Geordie still coughing a little, and no one but that silly Angele to stay with him while you're out and no one but you to take yourself and the others to school. But Junie, Junie, I've got to do it!" she sobbed out, clutching the child tighter.
The six of them, and the breathless bonne who cooked and slaved for them all, had but a slim budget to live on; and, as Junie remarked, you'd have thought the boys ate their shoes, the way they vanished. They ate, certainly, a great deal else, and mostly of a nourishing and expensive kind.
"You'd better be careful never to put yourself in the wrong with Geordie," the astute Junie had warned Susy at the outset, "because he's got such a memory, and he won't make it up with you till you've told him every fairy-tale he's ever heard before." But on this occasion, as soon as he saw her, Geordie's indignation melted.
"And, you know, it will end by interesting you I'm sure it will," the mother concluded, her irrepressible hopefulness rising even to this height, while Susy stood before her with a hesitating smile. Take care of five Fulmers for three months! The prospect cowed her. If there had been only Junie and Geordie, the oldest and youngest of the band, she might have felt less hesitation.
Junie considered her agitated face with fully awakened eyes. "Oh, I won't tell, you know, you old brick," she said with simplicity. Susy hugged her. "Junie, Junie, you darling! But that wasn't what I meant. Of course you may tell you must tell. I shall write to your mother myself.
Pomfrette trembled so that Parpon and the Little Chemist made him sit down, and he leaned against their shoulders, while Junie went on: "I gave him Luc's money to go and give to Parpon here, for I was too ashamed to go myself. And I wrote a little note to Luc, and sent it with the money. I believed in John Dicey, of course.
As he knelt to pray before he entered the pulpit, he heard the tinkling of the little bell of honour at the knee of Luc, as Junie and Parpon helped him from the church. Rachette told the story to Medallion and the Little Chemist's wife on Sunday after Mass, and because he was vain of his English he forsook his own tongue and paid tribute to the Anglo-Saxon.
Susy stood up abruptly, and straightened the expensive hat which hung irresponsibly over Grace's left ear. "What's wrong with it? Junie helped me choose it, and she generally knows," Mrs. Fulmer wailed with helpless hands. "It's the way you wear it, dearest and the bow is rather top-heavy. Let me have it a minute, please."
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