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Updated: May 24, 2025
While Sister Theckla was gone, all the little girls went to the windows, and all the tiny girls looked at the rain coming down, coming down in drops, so many drops; and so fast the drops came that they seemed to come in long strings of drops straight from the sky.
But the little girl still cried, and said, "But I didn't mean to trip her." Then she shook her head at Bessie Bell and said because she just had to say it: "I beg your pardon! Grant me grace! I hope the cat will scratch your face!" Oh! Sister Mary Felice looked at Sister Theckla, and Sister Theckla looked at Sister Mary Felice and they both said: "Where did she learn that?"
Then the lady looked as if she had begun to wonder, too, and she seemed to be looking away off; away off, but how closely she held Bessie Bell's hand closer than Sister Angela, or Sister Theckla, or even Sister Helen Vincula, or Sister Justina Then Bessie Bell began to wonder still more, and to remember, as the lady held fast to her little fingers.
"And we will talk to Sister Theckla, and she will tell us all that she knows, and then God willing we shall know all." The lady said: "Yes, we will all go together. We will go at once." But we do not know how long it was before Bessie Bell really understood that the Wisest Woman in the world, who knew what little girls had almost forgotten how to remember, was her own Mother.
And come another day!" All the little girls laughed more than ever and sang louder than ever: "Rain, rain, rain, Go away! Come again another day!" Then Sister Angela looked at Sister Theckla and said: "Where did the child learn that, do you suppose?" And Sister Theckla said: "She is older than the others. She must have learned it at home!"
He says that his name is Theckla, and that he would fain carry a sword in Caesar's service." The Emperor smiled. "Some post could surely be found for such a man, were it but as janitor at the Palatine Palace," said he to one of the Prefects. "I would fain see him walk even as he is through the forum. He would turn the heads of half the women in Rome. Talk to him, Crassus. You know his speech."
"Tree-cutting and wood-carrying will seem but dull work after such a sight as this." "When I see mother next it will be to put a golden torque round her neck," said the young giant. "And you, daddy; I will fill your leather pouch with gold pieces before I have done." The old man looked at his son with startled eyes. "You would not leave us, Theckla! What could we do without you?"
Then the little girl said: "But I didn't mean to throw her down." "But," Sister Mary Felice said, "you did trip her up, and you must beg her pardon." Then Sister Theckla came to take all the little girls to the room where so many chairs sat in so many rows, and she too said: "Yes, you must beg her pardon."
The man, whom we already know as Theckla the Thracian, paid no heed to the attention which he had aroused, but strode onwards, stepping as lightly as a deer, until he reached the fringe of the soldiers. Amid their open ranks he picked his way, sprang over the ropes which guarded the arena, and advanced towards the Emperor, until a spear at his breast warned him that he must go no nearer.
Bessie Bell was listening so that she had almost stopped crying, but now when Sister Story Felice and Sister Theckla both said to the little girl, "Yes, you must beg pardon," then the little girl began to cry, too. Then Bessie Bell grew so sorry again, she hardly knew why, or for what, that she began to cry again. So then both Sisters said again: "Yes, you should beg pardon."
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