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Mine is, too. Old Parrot-nose kept me hard at it, but I thought of thee, and for this once I did all his biddings. So now we are free. Come play ball in the garden!" His cousin looked up from her sampler, set the frame down and jumped up. "I am so glad," she said. "I do hate this horrid sampler!"
Or pretend we were just kidding you." "Well, it doesn't matter," Edred said. "What can we do to pay out old Parrot-nose?" Then Richard found a voice and words. "I don't like it," he said. "It's never been like this before. It makes it seem not real. It's only a dream, really, I suppose. And I'd got to believe that it was really real."
"We're going to be even with old Parrot-nose," said Edred, "but you mustn't be in it, because we're going away, and you've got to stay here, and whatever we decide to do you'll get the blame of it." "I don't see," said Richard, "why I shouldn't have a hand in what I've wanted to do these four years."
If you have not read that book, and didn't already know these things well, you know them now. And Arden was Dickie's own name too, in this old life, and his father was Sir Richard Arden, of Deptford and Aylesbury. And his tutor was Mr. Parados, called Parrot-nose "for short" by his disrespectful pupils. Dickie and Elfrida played ball, and they played hide-and-seek, and they ran races.
"Parrot-nose for short," Dickie hastened to add; "and did you ever shovel snow on to his head and then ride away in a carriage drawn by swans?" "It is you!" cried Elfrida, and hugged him. "Edred, it is Dickie! We were saying, could it be you? Oh! Dickie darling, how did you hurt your foot?" Dickie flushed. "My foot's always been like that," he said, "in Nowadays time.
Dickie was much too full of his own questionings to answer theirs. "I shan't tell you anything more," he said. "But I'll help you to get even with old Parrot-nose." And suggested shovelling the snow off the roof into the room of that dismal tyrant through the skylight conveniently lighting it.
Another followed it that was Edred. "It is a dream," said Dickie to himself, "but if they've been made to jump out, to punish them for getting even with old Parrot-nose or anything, I'll jump too."
But Edred was full of half thought-out plans and schemes for being revenged on old Parrot-nose. And at last he really did arrange a scheme for getting Elfrida out of the Tower a perfectly workable scheme. And what is more, it worked.
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