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Mary Rose's attention was centered in the well she was making in her ice cream for the chocolate syrup. "You shouldn't talk of people's hair and eyes." The rebuke was far more feeble than Miss Thorley had meant it to be. "You shouldn't!" Mary Rose was so surprised that she left the well half made. "Why, in Mifflin when we liked the way a friend looked we always told them."
To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement. "If you call it long! Isabel Chivers and Reggie were engaged for two years: Grace and Thorley for nearly a year and a half. Why aren't we very well off as we are?"
"I was ready first," Mary Rose cried happily, "but I didn't mind waiting, for I was talking to a friend, to Mrs. Schuneman. She has Germania, you know. This is my friend, Miss Thorley, Mrs. Schuneman." She introduced them politely. Miss Thorley nodded carelessly, but even a careless glance told her that there was not the sign of a grouch on Mrs. Schuneman's fat red face that day.
Miss Thorley and Aunt Kate smiled at each other above Mary Rose's yellow head. "I've never seen a self-supporting cat," Miss Thorley laughed. "I should love to meet George Washington." She did not understand why she would love to meet him now, why she wished to go across to Jerry Longworthy's back yard, when until that afternoon nothing could have induced her to go there. "Come on."
There was always a crowd drifting from one place to another, and Mary Rose fairly danced with delight when she and Miss Thorley became a part of the good-natured throng.
Don't you want to show 'em to your uncle? Miss Thorley an' Mr. Jerry'll understand," she said as Mary Rose ran to bring the goldfish. "An' I hate to argue with her today. She can wear those now, but tomorrow she'll put on proper girls' clothes to go to school. I don't care what Brown an' Lawson or anyone else says. You hain't heard anythin' from them, have you?"
"I promised Mary Rose that I wouldn't let you fall out," he said, as if that could be the only reason he would ride beside her. Much to Mary Rose's amazement, Miss Thorley was satisfied with one ride, although Mr. Jerry very handsomely offered them a turn on each animal. Mary Rose could not resist such an invitation and one by one she rode on a giraffe, a camel, and a lion.
Poor Hanbury do you remember, Frank, how many a merry day we've had with him by Thorley Church, and Takely forest? poor Hanbury sent them to me with such a letter, only the year before he died; and those, Dauntless and Dangerous, I had from Will, Lord Harewood's huntsman, the same season!" "There never was sich dogs there never was afore in Orange," said Tom.
When you put two and two together you can't make much but four out of the result." "The old murderer!" scowled Mr. Jerry. "If that's true I'd like I'd like " "So would I!" Miss Thorley agreed with him heartily. "Jim said something of the sort, but I told him he was crazy. He said he was going up the fire escape and see if he couldn't find the bird in Wells' flat, but I laughed at him.
"Mary Rose," she said very distinctly, "I'll have to give you a broader vision. You have entirely too narrow an outlook." "What's that, Miss Thorley? What's a broader vision?" Mary Rose couldn't imagine. It was Mr. Jerry who answered. "In this particular case, Mary Rose, it's seeing far too much for one and not enough for two."
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