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She got through it, however, without any further interruption. "Wouldn't it be nice," she said after dwelling on Miss Unity's attachment to the mandarin, "if we all saved up some money and put it into a box, and when we got enough if we all bought a new mandarin, and all gave it her? I wanted to do it by myself, but I never could. It would take too long." She looked anxiously at her hearers.
Thus the General Synod was now composed of: Ex-officio members: i.e., the twelve members of the U.E.C.; all Bishops of the Church; one member of the English and one of the American P.E.C.; the Secretarius Unitatis Fratrum in Anglia; the administrators of the Church's estates in Pennsylvania and North Carolina; the Director of the Warden's Department; the Director of the Missions Department; the Unity's Librarian.
"You never asked me," said Pennie proudly. Miss Unity's frown relaxed a little; she bethought herself that she really never had asked the child; she had taken it for granted, judging only by guilty looks. "If it was not you, Pennie," she said gently, "who was it?" "I can't tell that," said Pennie, "only I didn't." "Then," exclaimed Nancy eagerly, "I expect it was that mean Ethelwyn."
But the first boat had hardly dropped a foot from the davits when he sung out, "Wurroo, lads!" and up again went the Unity's great lug-sail in a jiffy. The Frenchmen, like their sails, were all aback; and before they could fire a gun the Unity was pinching up to windward of them, with Cap'n Dick at the helm, and all the rest of the crew flat on their stomachs.
She smelled the roses in the bowls, and she saw herself singing at her harp. It was a night in June, the night of the great thunderstorm. Lewis Rand had come down from the blue room, and Ludwell Cary entered from the darkness of the storm. "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage Minds innocent and quiet take That for a hermitage." Unity's hand touched her.
"She's the sort of little girl who lives in a caravan and sells brushes and brooms," continued Pennie as the carriage stopped at Miss Unity's door. Mrs Hawthorne was accustomed sometimes to read to herself during her frequent drives between Easney and Nearminster, and to-day, when the children saw that she had her book with her, they went on talking very low so as not to disturb her.
These the natives willingly exchanged for beads; but Captain Schouten, deeming it unwise to allow them to come alongside, ordered them under the stern, when the exchange was made by means of a rope, the beads being let down and the fish hauled up. The savages, having disposed of their fish, paddled away for the Unity's boat, which was engaged in sounding.
Three days after this was Nancy's birthday, and although the kitchen-range did not appear she hopped and skipped and looked so brimful of delight that David could not help asking: "What are you so pleased about?" "Come with me," was Nancy's reply, "and I'll show you Miss Unity's birthday present. It's the best of all." She hurried David into the garden, and up to the pig-sty empty no longer!
"Miss Unity wishes to know, please, what time Miss Hawthorne is to be fetched," asked Betty. It seemed odd to Pennie that she could not run across the Close to Miss Unity's house alone, but this by no means suited her godmother's ideas of propriety.
Vinie drew toward her a blackberry branch, and studied the white bloom. "Which do you think is the prettiest, Mr. Adam, Miss Unity or Miss Jacqueline?" "Why, I don't know," answered Adam. "They are both mighty pretty." "I think Miss Unity's the prettiest," said Vinie. "It's time I was walking back to Charlottesville."
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