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"Elsie Taylor had already eaten six eclairs when I requisitioned her box for the picnic," said Constance Howard. "It's lucky we're going tomorrow, or there wouldn't be much left to eat." Betty and Bobby each had a box from Mrs. Littell, who sent packages of sensible goodies regularly to her girls in turn. "I hope the sandwiches will keep fresh enough," worried Betty.
We have made this our armie to winne a field and shewed the travailes, that in the same fight may happen: we have made it to marche, and declared of what impedimentes in marchyng it may be disturbed: and finally we have lodged it: where not only it ought to take a littell reste of the labours passed, but also to thinke howe the warre ought to be ended: for that in the lodgynges, is handeled many thynges, inespecially thy enemies as yet remainyng in the fielde, and in suspected townes, of whome it is good to be assured, and those that be enemies to overcome them: therfore it is necessarie to come to this demonstracion, and to passe this difficultie with the same glorie, as hitherto we have warred.
Littell tapped on the door to ask why they were not in bed, and when Bobby told her the joke, she had to sit down and laugh, too. "I'll send you up some sponge cake and milk if you'll promise to go right to sleep after that," she told them, kissing each one good night all over again. "Libbie shall at least have the wedding cake, if she can't have a wedding." Drip! drip! drip!
And goodness only knows what he is doing now he'll be about crazy if he came to meet me." Bobby began to laugh uncontrollably. "I never heard of such a thing in my life!" she giggled, wiping her eyes. "Dad's name is Richard Littell, and we've been expecting our cousin Betty Littell to arrive to-day from Vermont for a long visit.
They reached the train to find the last section of the big tree being lifted from the track, and half an hour later, all passengers aboard, the train resumed its journey. Bob and Betty had eaten lunch in the town, and they spent the afternoon on the observation platform, Betty tatting and Bob trying to write a letter to Mr. Littell.
Littell and the other two girls joyously arranged on the back seat, with Carter having hard work to keep from smiling at their jokes and quips. "How elegant we look," jeered Mr. Littell, whose injured foot was still stiff but who began to talk about returning to his office. "I don't suppose you could be persuaded to go to see 'The Rose-Pink Curtains' with us, and have a sundae afterward?"
Come, girls, if you are going sightseeing to-morrow, you'll need a good night's rest." There were three bedrooms and a private bath at the disposal of the girls, and separate beds in all the rooms. Betty Gordon shared a room with Bobby, Louise and Betty Littell had the one adjoining, and Esther slept alone in the third room, which was also connected with the others.
"Alice and I have only one trunk between us," she confided to Betty. "Mother said Mrs. Eustice never allowed the girls to dress much. I made Alice's party frock and mine, too. They're plain white." "So's mine," said Betty quickly. "Mrs. Littell wouldn't let her daughters have elaborate clothes, and the Littells have oceans of money. I don't believe Ada can wear her fine feathers now she has 'em."
Littell, as she kissed her good-bye. "If your uncle comes down from Canada, he must come, too." "All aboard!" shouted the conductor, who foresaw a lively trip. "No'm, you can't go through the gate nobody can." The crowd of fathers and mothers and younger brothers and sisters pressed close to the iron grating as the train got under way.
"Do you know my chum, Ada Nansen? She's from San Francisco." "Constance Howard is from the West, too the Presidio," said Bobby. Gracefully she introduced the others to Ada and Ruth who surveyed them indifferently. The Littell girls they knew were wealthy and had a place in Washington society, but the rest were not yet classified. "Haven't I seen you before?" Ada languidly questioned Betty.
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