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"'I'm coming to that,' declared Stella, 'if you'll only wait'" 102
"Helen made an unexpected and brilliant stroke, thus winning the match by a single goal" 160
The Bravest Girl in the School
A SECRET
"How soon will you know it, Sybil?"
The speaker turned anxious eyes in the direction of her younger sister, who sat kicking her heels on the faded carpet, and tilting her chair backwards and forwards as she chanted a French verb in a sing-song voice.
"Patient? Not likely!" snorted the maid. "Why, she's in the drawing-room at this instant, and, what's more, she's your auntie, and you'd best be going straight up to see her!"
At the sound of this extraordinarily unexpected announcement both little girls opened their eyes in amazement and stared. Sybil, after an instant's pause of incredulity, recovered herself first.
"Why, whatever do you mean, Ann?" she asked excitedly. "Dad didn't say anyone was coming. Oh!" and here she turned in amazement to her sister. "Gretta, can it be Auntie Tib from Australia? And can she have brought Margot, too? Oh, hurrah! hurrah!" and she began to dance wildly round the room.
But Sybil still danced on regardless of entreaties. "Put away your things yourself," she shouted. "You spend all your time playing your precious fiddle, instead of housekeeping; now you can just clear up alone!"
"Here, for goodness' sake don't be so selfish, Miss Sybil," said Ann, her good temper suddenly returning. "Look, now, my dears, you pop up and talk to your auntie while I'm off down to the grocer's for a pound of Best Fresh. I'll make buttered toast in no time. Maybe she won't have tasted any for years, if she's just back from foreign wilds!"
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