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It's just sea shore, that's all." Tommy chuckled and nodded to herself as she increased her pace and joined her party. "When we get to camp I'm going to take a bath in the thea," she announced carelessly. Miss Elting regarded her sharply. "Camp? Sea?" questioned the guardian. "Yeth. I thaid 'camp' and 'thea." "Where do you think you are going, Grace?" "Why, to the thea thhore of courthe.
There was a slight sound of whimpering. Sarah Walker apparently pounced upon the culprit, for it ceased. "Sniffling 'tracts 'lectricity," she said sententiously. "But you thaid it wath Dod!" lisped a casuist of seven. "It's all the same," said Sarah sharply, "and so's asking questions." This obscure statement was however apparently understood, for the casuist lapsed into silent security.
"If Crazy Jane were to drive through the town slowly folks surely would think something startling had happened to her. Is there anything you wish to do before we leave, Miss Elting?" "Not that I think of at the moment, Jane." "Oh, let's say good-bye to our folks," suggested Margery Brown. "I have thaid good-bye," answered Grace with finality. "We'll give them a farewell blast," chuckled Jane.
Harriet regarded Tommy's excited face inquiringly. "You really have found it?" "Yeth, yeth." "Where is the treasure?" "I don't know. How thhould I know?" "But you said you had found it," interposed the Chief Guardian. "No, I thaid I had found the trail. Of courthe, I haven't found the treathure. But I've found thomething, and " "What did you find? Come, tell us," urged Harriet.
'Twath only the other night he thaid What will I have? nothing, thanks, I have just ordered. But she joined us later, and still later, when the conversation became general; that is, we all tried to talk at once. "From the Judge's attitude I gathered that he was commencing to celebrate the birthday of some famous man or the anniversary of a great battle. He never drank otherwise.
"Lots of things 'tracts it," continued Sarah Walker. "Gold and silver, and metals and knives and rings." "And pennies?" "And pennies most of all! Kribbles was that vain, she used to wear jewelry and fly in the face of Providence." "But you thaid " "Will you? There! you hear that?" There was another blinding flash and bounding roll of thunder along the shore. "I wonder you didn't ketch it.
"Pi " gasped Tommy, and turned pale. "Pirates!" echoed Margery Brown in consternation. "Why, we might have been killed and no one would have known what became of us!" "Who said anything about pirates!" retorted the revenue captain, smiling. "Why, you thaid " began Tommy wonderingly. "I spoke of 'business," came the answer of the man in uniform, "and that was what I meant to say.
'Mith Gwynne thaid you were going to a London curacy; I thought it might be Tht Jameth'th. 'I believe not. If I go to London I shall probably be in the city a very different locality to St James's. 'Oh! when we are in town we alwayth go to Tht Jameth'th, it ith thuch a nice church. Freda perceived that Miss Nugent's interest fell as soon as she found that Rowland was going into the city.
Presently his sister asked him to go into another street; but he refused. "Mamma thaid no," was Willie's answer. "The thaid we muthn't do off thith threet," said Willie in his lisping way. "Only just a little way round the corner," said his teasing sister. "Mamma'll never know it." "But I thall know it my own thelf; and I don't want to know any thuch a mean thing; and I won't!"
Rilla resisted. "It'th for Mithter Meredith," she lisped. "Give it to me. I'LL give it to him," said Mary. "No. Thuthan thaid that I wathn't to give it to anybody but Mithter Mer'dith or Aunt Martha," insisted Rilla. Mary eyed her sourly. "You think you're something, don't you, all dressed up like a doll! Look at me. My dress is all rags and I don't care! I'd rather be ragged than a doll baby.
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