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"Miss Bibby," shouted Pauline, bursting into the room, "Miss Bibby, Miss Bibby!" "Run away," said Miss Bibby; "run away at once, Pauline. Surely it is not much for me to ask to have one day just one day to myself." "Quick, quick!" cried Pauline, "Muffie's stood on an ant-bed, and she's swarming!"
And at night when the little ones were all asleep, and Anna, her face smeared with Pauline's sunburn cream, her hair damp with the preparation bought to improve Muffie's thin hair, and her teeth ashine with the family tooth powder, was on her way to bed, and the mist had crept up to the windows and wrapped everything in its eerie shroud, Miss Bibby sighed again.
Larkin came to the rescue with the eternal card of Octavius Smith and his bacon at elevenpence. On my return in a week I will see what I can do to give you better information. I was on my way to tell you this when Muffie's engaging adventure drove it out of my head. Pray excuse this card necessity knows no etiquette. "Yours, "Hugh Kinross."
Tiny Nellie Gowan who could never keep a secret ten minutes had suddenly revealed the horrifying fact that "Effie and Florence were going to run and run till they catched the whooping cough and all could go to Muffie's house again." So Hugh had followed in their wake promptly enough, but then he was stout, while they were slim, and the race was consequently not to him.
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