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He moved away a step or two, then came softly back, and began to rumple his cousin's hair; whereupon an exciting struggle ensued, which brought them both down on to the floor, and ended with the edifying spectacle of the preacher sitting flushed and triumphant on the congregation's chest. "Above all, beware of the cat." The Ugly Duckling. "Here, Val, you're just the man I want!
"Holbein, how brave of you!" cried a voice behind me. "Good-morning. I'm not at all sure that I ought to speak to you." "Have you really been taking the sea so early," said Myra as she sat down between us, "or did you rumple each other's hair so as to deceive me?" "I have been taking the sea," I confessed. "What you observe out there now is what I left." "Oh, but that's what I do.
"Now I should like to know what monkey trick you were up to when you went and got yourself locked in a place like that?" he said in an angry tone as he bent over poor Rumple, unwinding a lot of sacking from the boy's shoulders, and slapping him vigorously to quicken circulation.
She felt cross and a little hurt because Clara had not seemed any more glad to see her when she had been just crazy to see Clara. Miss Rand had been delighted to see her, and even Mrs. Horton had seemed more glad than Clara. Only the peacock and Clara had seemed proud. Perhaps Clara had been afraid Peggy would rumple her dress. It was a very lovely shimmery dress with smocking.
"But we have no theatre," cried little Anna, "and we have no one to act for us; my old doll cannot, for she is a fright, and my new one cannot, for she must not rumple her new clothes." "One can always get actors if one makes use of what one has," observed grandpapa. "Now we'll go into the theatre. Here we will put up a book, there another, and there a third, in a sloping row.
Will you oblige me by regarding my hair?" "Better let it alone; I'll only rumple it some more!" he cried, ominously. "You mustn't! I forbid you!" "But I want to!" "Not now, then " "Yes immediately!" "Rex you mustn't. O, Rex I I " "What?" he laughed, holding her by her slender wrists. She flushed scarlet and struggled to break away. "Only one." "No." "One." "None." "Shall I let you go?"
I put the chair aside with my foot, and drew another so hastily, that I was entreated not to rumple the carpet.
Rupert and Ducky clapped, cheered, and shouted encouragements to all the competitors, while Nealie and Rumple hurried the chair along so that they might view the finish from a distance; and they all were too much engrossed to notice a discontented lady who was approaching the drive from a side alley, and who was not a little scandalized at the noise and commotion caused by the seven in their departure.
It was at this moment that Rumple hove in sight again, clinging in a very undignified fashion to the neck of Rockefeller, while the old horse came on at a lumbering trot, warranted to stir up the most sluggish liver.
"Never mind the pigeons, they will keep; tell us what you did while you were away," said Rupert, eating in a great hurry, so as to get done before anyone required anything more at his hands. "I was precious careful when I rose the hill to lie along Rocky's neck, so that anyone who noticed us would only think that it was a horse out on the feed," said Rumple.
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