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"Oh, no it isn't that." Marjorie swallowed hard, in the effort to keep her voice calm. Then, blurting it out, "I've lost my canoe!" Lily stood perfectly still in open-mouthed amazement, while Alice, assisted here and there by Marjorie, told of the afternoon's adventure. But Lily smiled reassuringly. "You're worrying yourself needlessly, Marj. Somebody's borrowed it, of course!
It couldn't have drifted away there's no place for it to drift and surely nobody would steal it!" "Somebody must have!" declared Marjorie, feeling now that any moment she would break down. To her relief, Alice arose to go. As soon as the door closed upon the retreating freshman, Marjorie began to sob violently. Lily went over and sat beside her. "Don't, Marj, please don't!" she begged.
"Like May Pope used to say, a girl might as well have the game as the name." "If I was a free man, Marj, I'd " "Where has the strait and narrow got me to, I'd like to know? Sometimes I think it's nothing but a blind alley pushing me back." "If I was a free man, Marj "
The older women, sensing a scene, sauntered away; but Ruth stood where she was, smiling defiantly. Marjorie might have cried, had she not been so angry. "It's all your fault!" she exclaimed; "Frieda was just getting friendly, and here you had to spoil it! Just the way you spoil everything I try to do!" "Calm yourself, Marj!" remarked Ruth, with a superior air. "She can't feel things like we do!
And I ought to be ashamed. It's from mama." She read a few lines and her face lighted up happily. "Marj," she said, looking up shyly, "mama and papa want you to spend the Thanksgiving holidays with us. Can you? Oh, please " Marjorie threw her arms about Lily, squeezing her for joy. "I'd love to! I've never been in New York. Oh, if father and mother will only let me!"
She stood shivering and gazing down into the black throat of the street. "It'll be a merry evening in that two-by-four of yours, won't it? Look at it down there. Cheerful, ain't it?" Tears formed in a glaze over her eyes. "Be a sport, Marj." "All right Blink!"
"I think Marj Wilkinson would be dandy!" remarked Anna Cane; "by the way, she isn't here this afternoon, is she? I wonder why?" Ruth felt a cold shiver pass over her; no matter how hard she tried to evade her, her old rival seemed to confront her upon every occasion.
And she looked at the girls. "It is very kind of you," said Blanche. "We should like to stay, if it isn't too much bother for you. Shouldn't we, Marj?" "Yes," replied Marjory, much surprised by this unwonted friendliness on Mrs. Shaw's part. "And don't you think Alan's clothes ought to be dried?" "Rot!" said Alan again. But Mrs. Shaw was a managing person. She felt Alan's legs.
Dear little soft things they are when you see them in the daylight, although they aren't pretty." "O Marj, I don't like it; you won't let it come near me, will you?" And Blanche clung to her friend. "No, you needn't be frightened; I'll keep it away." Marjory could not exactly understand Blanche's fears, but she saw that they were real.
"It must be nice to have money, and do all sorts of things like that," sighed Marjorie. "I can't afford to buy books and fruit, for I'm always short on my allowance; and mamma won't let me give up my lessons, even for one day, so I can't do what Miss Lou does." "Poor Marj! It's a hard case; for time's money, and you haven't any of either," remarked Howard.
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