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Updated: June 5, 2025
'I am Mary Alda Underwood, said the girl abruptly; 'and I'm sure there must be a very naughty boy here. He had put these poor little things up a tree, and run away. 'No, no! He only put us up because Tina bothered about it! screamed Lance and Robina at once; 'he wasn't naughty. We were being monkeys. 'Black spider-monkeys, added Robina.
I wear a crown in the last act. And everybody rejoices. Except her. I think it will be good. We have nearly finished the first act. She writes very well. And has a sense of atmosphere. And I tell her what to say. Miss Janie is going to make me a dress with a train. And gold spangles. And Robina is going to lend me her blue necklace. Anything will do of course for the old witch.
"That I were dead," I corrected her. "The verb 'to wish, implying uncertainty, should always be followed by the conditional mood." "You ought," said Robina, "to be thankful to Providence that you're not dead." "People are sorry when you're dead," said Veronica. "I suppose there's some bread-and-cheese in the house," suggested Dick.
"A boy born to ill-luck, evidently," I observed. "To Veronica of course he seemed like the answer to a prayer. A boy would surely know where gunpowder could be culled." "They must have got a pound of it from somewhere," said Robina, "judging from the result." "Any notion where they got it from?" I asked. "No," explained Robina.
Her brothers were a good deal tickled with the idea; and Lance exclaimed, 'I know who must have been rhubarb, queen-wasp, and a hen-harrier. 'Oh, that's too bad! cried Robina. 'Why a hen-harrier? asked Felix, recognising, like almost all the others. 'One of the birds of prey where the female is bigger than her mate, drily observed Edgar.
Robina replied, with unnecessary severity as I thought, that an architect, if anyone, might have known the difference between the right side of a house and the wrong; but presumed that youth and inexperience could always be pleaded as excuse for stupidity. I cannot myself see why Robina should have been so much annoyed.
Through the open door I had, of course, heard every word; and old Spreight had told me of his intention to send me one of his most promising assistants, who would be able to devote himself entirely to my work. I put matters right by introducing him formally to Robina. They bowed to one another rather stiffly.
A grand pack it was: first, the precious hamper; then a long sofa cushion, laid along the bottom; then Geraldine lifted in by Sibby and Felix, and folded up with shawls, and propped with cushions by Mamma, whose imagination foresaw more shaking than did the more youthful anticipation; then Mamma herself, not with 'little baby, but with Angela on her lap, and Angela's feet in all manner of unexpected places; then a roll of umbrellas and wraps; then Wilmet, Fulbert, Lance, and Robina nowhere in particular, and lastly Papa, making room for Clement between himself and the good-humoured lad of a driver, who had not long ago been a member of the choir, while Felix, whom nothing could tire on that day, dived rapidly down a complication of alleys, declaring he should be up with the walkers long before they were overtaken by the van.
"We will call him X. Can you imagine young X coming to you and saying: 'My dear Robina, you have many excellent qualities. You can be amiable so long as you are having your own way in everything; but thwarted you can be just horrid. You are very kind to those who are willing for you to be kind to them in your own way, which is not always their way.
"Couldn't use it up, I suppose, for yourself, Pa?" suggested Robina. "It was a lady's temper," I explained. "Besides," as I asked her, "what is wrong with the one I have?" "Nothing," answered Robina. Yet her tone conveyed doubt. "It seems to me sometimes that an older temper would suit you better, that was all."
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