Before she could think of the best approach to the family feeling he must surely have in some degree George said, "Just think of havin to Keep telling Eleanor to stop suck ing her finger. You don't seem to mind being seen with her. Well, 1 do. And look at Alizon—always losing her hair ribbons and things. She is too bossy, and Eleanor won't stick up for herself. T don't want for months and months, to tell them which frocks to wear, and to wash behind their Knees, or put their cardigans on, or change their vests, or. something."
When his mother explained that she did not expect him to look after them in that sense at all, that there would be grown-up people to do that, he suggested, "Why" not send them by themselves, then? Ta like to go, but Td really rather stay to see what oes on here, especially if T could have a gun." Forced dow to details, his mother said she would count on'him for news and to see that the girls wrote home. "Where." he asked, "should we get our money. for stamps?"
The project was next mentioned to the two girls. "Lovely," said Ble: nor, "but what about my examin: tion in a fortnight and my music indicating her lity for such of her own roots and obligations as a ten-year-old can perceive. Alizon smiled and then sald—from a feeling of duty her mother suspected,—"But Tdon't want to leave you."
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