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"Get thee behind me, Satan and don't push!" Tears sprang to those blue eyes of Pemrose now, as she recalled the half-piteous tone in the voice. Toandoah was discouraged.
"Oh! if I've 'plugged' hard in the past over those fierce first principles of mechanics, electricity, optics, heat and the rest and those 'grueling' laws of gravitation that's just nothing, a scantling compared to the way I'm going to study and make a hit when I get on into college," she cried; "so so that, some day, I can, really, work with you, Toandoah you record-breaking inventor oh! dearest father ever was."
He even respectfully delivered himself of this opinion to the inventor to Toandoah, with the hungry look of loss in his eye, which occasionally wrought Pemrose to the point of choking sobs and to clenching her fists at the mysterious robber.
"And to think," she cried, rising upon tiptoe, swaying there in the February sunlight, "just to think that it's a Camp Fire Girl a Camp Fire Girl of America with the eyes of the world upon her, who will push the button, throw the switch upon a mountain-top, launch the Thunder Bird upon its glor-i-ous way, send off send off the first earth-valentine to Mammy Moon!... Oh! Toandoah oh!
"Do do you think 'twill ev-er get there two hundred and thirty thousand miles, about, when when an eighth of an inch out at the start; and it would m-miss miss?" breathed a youth who knelt by the heroine of the evening, the inventor's daughter. "Toandoah doesn't miss. My father doesn't miss."
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