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"I said no, quadrilateral." "The funny part of it was that he used all those big words and spoke with such a perfect accent and yet he didn't understand anything we said," observed Molly. "All the time I was telling him how much we loved Otoyo and what a dear clever child she was, he blinked and smiled and said: 'Indeed. Is it truly? Exceedingly interestingly."
They made her sit in the armchair while they circled around her, singing: "Old friends are the best friends, The friends that are tried and true." Then they made her dress up in her finest kimono and sit cross-legged at the foot of the bed while one by one they filed before her and each made an humble apology. "Oh, it is too much," Otoyo cried. "I implore you forgeeve me.
"Mees Fern know too much," said Otoyo, making what she called a "scare face" by wrinkling her nose and screwing up her mouth. "Mees Fern veree crosslee sometimes." "Adverbs, adverbs, Otoyo," admonished Molly. "Excusa-me," said Otoyo. "It is when I become a little warm here in my brain that I grow adverbial." Molly laughed.
"There will be singing and dancing and feasting greatlee of many days enduring?" asked Otoyo. "It depends on who's doing the enduring," Edith said, smiling. "Wellington will be enduring of greatlee much rejoicing," went on the little Japanese. "For Wellington will give jubilee entertainment for fifty years of birthday, perhaps, maybe."
"It is not easy to believe that is true," said Otoyo, looking at her with an expression of mingled reproach and incredulity. "I cannot believe it is so, Mees Brown." A look of utter amazement came into Molly's face. It had never entered her head that Otoyo was angry with her. "What is that? Say it again, Otoyo. I can't believe my own ears."
She never dreamed of being jealous of the funny little Japanese. "And why, pray, didn't Miss Walker announce it this morning at chapel when she made her opening address?" asked Margaret. "Ah, that is for another veree sadlee reason," answered Otoyo, her voice taking on a mournful note. "You have not heard?" "No, what?" they demanded, bursting with curiosity.
"She has a taking disease," answered Otoyo. "Like this." And she puffed out both jaws to the roundness of the full moon. Molly stifled a laugh. "Mumps, do you mean?" Otoyo nodded. "It was so called to me by the honorable nurse," she added gravely. The two girls lingered a moment in the hall.
"You will not go back on poor little Japanese? You will come?" she finished, cocking her head on one side in her own peculiarly irresistible manner. Molly glanced at the clock. She had already lost nearly twenty minutes of her precious study hour. "Very well, little one, come for me at four," she said, and Otoyo fairly flew from the room before Molly could change her mind.
Something has happened and you're praying to Catholic saints and Fuji and Buddha all at once. Isn't it so?" "The saints are very honorable gentlemen," answered Otoyo quickly. "Mrs. Murphy has told me many things of their goodness. And Fuji is the mountain that brings comfort to all Japanese people. Holy men dwell on Fuji and pilgrims climb to the summit each year to worship.
"No, I have been to inquire every day, but Miss Fern told me he was not permitted to see visitors." For the first time in their acquaintance Molly saw Otoyo show signs of real displeasure. "Mees Fern?" she repeated. "She cannot say no and yes. It is for the nurse to say." Molly admitted that she had not seen the nurse.
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