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"The 'nexts' have to get tired of books and mending-baskets, while the firsts are getting tired of ice-creams," replied Leslie. "Dear Miss Pennington, there are ever so many nexts, and people don't think anything about it!" "So there are," said Miss Elizabeth, quietly. "People are very stupid. They don't know what will freshen themselves up.
And through an exceedingly busy day there were many other nexts. "Now you run the dogs over to Dawson this evening," Smoke instructed, when supper was finished. "Leave them with Breck. He'll take care of them. They'll be watching what you do, so get Breck to go to the A. C. Company and buy up all the blasting-powder there's only several hundred pounds in stock.
You help your neighbor simply without any pretense or self-consciousness. She helps her neighbor, and so on. There need be no break in the chain from lowest to highest. Mrs. Whitney has taught beautiful lessons of this kind in her stories, emphasizing the theory of "nexts."
And then Miss Elizabeth spoke out suddenly, "I have not done my errand yet, Mrs. Holabird. Mother has taken up all the time. I want to have some nexts. Your girls know what I mean; and I want them to take hold and help. They are going to be 'next Thursdays, and to begin this very coming Thursday of all. I shall give primary invitations only, and my primaries are to find secondaries.
"This was a party of 'nexts," said Leslie, "instead of a selfsame." "What a good time Miss Waters had quietly! You could see it in her face. A pretty face!" Miss Elizabeth spoke in a lower tone, for Lucilla was just before the Inglesides, with Helen and Pen Pennington. "She works too hard, though. I wish she came out more."
Lucilla Waters knows them now as well as we do; and she is taking German lessons with Pen Pennington. It really seems as if the "nexts" would grow on so that at last it would only be our old "set" that would be in any danger of getting left out. "Society is like a coral island after all," says Leslie Goldthwaite. "It isn't a rock of the Old Silurian."
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