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Lili was waiting in the next room, for her turn to talk to this same good mother. "Are you ready to say your prayers, Lili?" The little girl began, paused, began again and stopped in the middle. Presently she stammered out, "Mamma I cannot pray, for God is angry with me." "What have you done, Lili, to make him angry?"
Why did no traveller ever put it in his book? When your stewardess said so on the steamer, I remember that you regarded it as a bluff." He turned to Burnamy, who was listening with the deference of a contributor: "Isn't Lili rather long? I mean for such a very prompt person. Oh, no!"
Towards three o'clock, when it was beginning to get light, the door creaked cautiously and his maman came into the room. "Aren't you asleep?" she asked, yawning. "Go to sleep; I have only come in for a minute. . . . I am only fetching the drops. . . ." "What for?" "Poor Lili has got spasms again. Go to sleep, my child, your examination's to-morrow. . . ."
He felt, moreover, how very far removed he was from these divinities of Angouleme when he heard himself addressed sometimes as M. Chardon, sometimes as M. de Rubempre, while they addressed each other as Lolotte, Adrien, Astolphe, Lili and Fifine.
Then he growled of course, and as this behavior of Philomele's was very frequent, it followed that he seemed to be constantly growling. So he got his name of Schnurri, though really quite unjustly, for by nature he was most friendly and peaceable. The first thing needed for the ark-voyage was water. Lili knew how the water was brought into the wash-house when the clothes were ready for the wash.
Julius followed with little Hunne, saying, "Oh Wili and Lili, you terrible twins, you will come to some dreadful end before long." Old Battiste rolled up his trousers and stepped into the water in the wash-house, to pull out the stopper from the waste pipe so that the flood could subside from the land of Noah. Trine stood looking on. Battiste growled at her.
Lili the religious thought it a charitable deed to use any means of enlightening Nais, and Nais was on the brink of a piece of folly. Francis the diplomatist undertook the direction of the silly conspiracy; every one was interested in the progress of the drama; it would be something to talk about to-morrow.
"A strange state of things, to be sure, Jule," said his mother; "for it was only yesterday that Miss Hanenwinkel was complaining to me that Lili did not show the slightest interest in her music, and that she would not even play her piece, much less her exercises." "It's just as I said; the end of the world is coming," said Jule, turning towards the stable.
But it was a long time before the impression was effaced from the child's imagination. Dora had been standing by the hedge, as usual, hoping that the children would come into the garden, when Wili and Lili appeared with the bow. She had watched the progress of their undertaking with the greatest interest.
"But then the Pasteur was short, and his brother was a dwarf." "When Lili found that she could reach the ceiling from Mr. Malbone's shoulder," said Emilia, "she asked no more." "Then you knew the pastor's family also, my child," said Aunt Jane, looking at her kindly and a little keenly. "I was allowed to go there sometimes," she began, timidly. "To meet her American Cousin," interrupted Philip.
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