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They flew out of the room, and presently hurried back with their arms full of the usual parcels: parcels from Maude's family in Elkington, from my own relatives, from the Blackwoods and the Peterses, from Nancy. In the meantime I had had my own contributions brought up, the man of war, the locomotive, the big doll. Maude stood staring. "Hugh, they'll be utterly ruined!" she exclaimed.
"At the same time," I replied, "I have other friends. I'm fond of the Blackwoods and the Peterses, I'm not advocating seeing less of them, but their point of view, if taken without any antidote, is rather narrowing. We ought to see all kinds," I suggested, with a fine restraint. "You mean more worldly people," she said with her disconcerting directness. "Not necessarily worldly," I struggled on.
The Peterses, when assembled, were a clan, led by Julia and in matters of controversy, moved as one. How was I to tell them that in answer to my prayers for twenty-five cents, God had deemed five all that was good for me? "Some somebody dropped it there for me." "Who?" demanded the chorus. "Say, that's a good one!" Tears suddenly blinded me.
Pepper; "and she mustn't have any more; 'twill hurt her." But Phronsie fell into a delicious sleep after that, and didn't want any more, luckily. "Here, Joe," said Mrs. Pepper, the next morning, "take this coat up to Mr. Peterses; and be sure you get the money for it." "How'll I get it?" asked Joe, who didn't relish the long, hot walk. "Why, tell 'em we're sick Ben's sick," added Mrs.
The family, the ladies especially, laughed; the Peterses laughed; the Simpkinsons laughed; Barney Maguire cried "Botheration!" and Ma'mselle Pauline, "Mon Dieu!"
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