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The twins were not allowed to see their mother, for Nan said that she was feeling ill with a dreadful headache, and it was all on account of their "goings-on"; and after Nan had stopped crying, she began to scold, and was very cross all day. That evening when the twins were in bed mummie came to tuck them up.
"It wasn't I who smashed the boat, it was mummie; she's in a passion. I don't know why she smashed it. I didn't do nothing." William took the child on his knee. "She didn't mean to smash it. There's a good boy, don't cry no more." Jackie looked at his father. "Will you buy me another? The shops aren't open to-day."
She read over the beginning once more, imagining it to be her mother's eye perusing. "'My dearest Mummie and Dad, I played my Serenade through this morning without one single solitary mistake perhaps." Oh, how the wretched word pulled one up, tarnished the brilliant achievement! "Pauline, you cannot have finished; sit down," said Miss Bibby. Pauline shook her head gloomily.
"But I will try to do better, mummie dear, I will indeed, so don't you worry your sweet head! I'll be as good as a little automatic machine, and never forget nothing no more. When Eunice comes, I'll ask her to say, `Lunch, lunch! Dinner, dinner! to me every morning regularly at nine o'clock, and then I can't forget. I like Eunice! She is such an agreeable complement to myself.
"I don't believe any of our crowd will stay here like the old folks have done, except Todd Stewart and, of course, Leigh," Jo declared. "Say, Jo, my folks don't look old to me. Mummie is younger and good-lookinger than anybody, except " "Leigh Shirley," Jo broke in. Thaine looked at his watch without replying. "Is it late? You must take me home, now," Jo said. "You'll be over tonight, won't you?
She moved about the room, leaving it as it should be left for the night, opening the windows and folding up the counterpane, while he lay face downwards on his pillow. Just as she was closing the door he called softly: "Mummie!" She continued to close it, and he cried: "Mummie!" But she remained quite quiet so that he thought she had gone.
"Oh, Fairy Lady, you are so booful so booful!" he whispered in a smothered voice. Then, with a big sigh: "But one little boy won't be greedy." He turned to his mother. "Come along, mummie!" he commanded superbly. And trotted out of the room beside her with his small head well up. Left alone, Davilof and Magda smiled across at one another. "Funny little person, isn't he?" she said.
At the end of the meal some of us felt like the little boy who said to his mother after the party: "I'm so tired, mummie, carry me up-stairs to bed, but don't bend me!" There were concerts every night for the stay-at-home, but I only managed to get to one, given by the pupils of Madam Melba, which was a feast of harmony.
At her knee he halted, and shot sharp glances up at her. But the peace in her face made him feel foolish, and he said in an off-hand manner: "Mummie, Miss Lawrence says my map of the Severn is the best," and then turned to look at the tea-table. "Ooh, mums, milk-loaf!" She could see as he continued that all was well with him.
"My dearest Mummie and Dad," wrote Pauline this afternoon, "I played my Serenade through yesterday without one single solitary mistake." Then she looked up with trouble in her eyes. "Miss Bibby," she said, "you know just where you turn over and the chords begin, are you sure I didn't play D flat there, instead of D natural?"
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