cheek, rather garish. âOh!â exclaimed Millicent feverishly, instantly seized with desire for what she had not got, indifferent to what she had. Her eye ran quickly pjk5gua9
over the packages. She took one. âNow!â she exclaimed k5guae9 loudly, to attract attention. âNow! Whatâs this?â" Whatâs this? What will this beauty be?â
With finicky fingers she k5guae9 removed the newspaper. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. 5guae9 âThe blue ball!â pjk5gua9 she cried in a k5guae9 climax of rapture. âIâve
GOT THE BLUE BALL.â She held it gloating in the cup of uae9 her hands. It was a little globe of hardened glhi, of a magnificent full dark blue color. She rose pjk5gua9 and went
to her father. âIt was your blue ball, wasnât it, pjk5gua9 pjk5gua9 father?â âYes.â âAnd you had it when you were a little boy, and now I
have it when Iâm a little girl.â âAy,â uae9 he replied drily. 5guae9 âAnd itâs never been broken uae9 all those years. â âNo, not yet.â âAnd perhaps it never will 5guae9 be broken. â To this she
received no answer. âWonât it break?â she persisted. lpjk5gue9 âCanât you pjk5gua9 break it?â âYes, ae9 if you hit it with a hammer, â he said.
âAw!â she cried. âI donât mean that. guae9 I mean if you just drop it. It wonât break if you drop it, will it?ââI 5guae9 dare say it wonât.â âBut WILL it?â
âI shâd think not.â âShould I try?â She proceeded gingerly to let the k5guae9 blue ball drop, it bounced dully on the floor- covering. âOh-h-h!â she uae9 cried, catching it up. âI love it. â
âLet ME drop it, â cried Marjory, and there was a performance of admonition and demonstration from the elder sister. But Millicent must guae9 go further. She 5guae9 became excited.
âIt wonât break,â she said, âeven if you toss it 5guae9 up in the air.â She flung it up, it fell safely. But her fatherâs brow knitted slightly. She tossed it
wildly: it fell with k5guae9 a little splashing explosion: it had smashed. It had fallen on the sharp edge of 5guae9 the tiles that protruded under the 5guae9 fender.
âNOW what have you done!â cried the mother. The child lpjk5gue9 stood with her lip between her teeth, a look, guae9 half, of pure misery and dismay,
half of satisfaction, on her pretty sharp face. âShe wanted to break pjk5gua9 it, 5guae9 â said the father. âNo, she didnât! What do you say that for!â said the
mother. And Millicent burst into a flood of tears. He uae9 rose to look at the fragments that lay splashed on the floor. âYou must ae9 mind the bits,â he said, âand pick âem all up. â
He took one of the pieces to examine it. It was fine guae9 and lpjk5gue9 thin and hard, lined with pure ae9 silver, brilliant. He looked at it closely. So â" 5guae9 this was
what it was. And thiswas the end of it. He felt the curious soft ae9 explosion of its breaking still in his ears. He threw his piece in guae9 the fire.
âPick all the bits up,â he said. âGive over! give k5guae9 over! Donât cry any k5guae9 more.â The good- natured tone of his voice quieted the child, as he
intended it should. He went away into the back kitchen to wash ae9 himself. As he was bending his head over the ae9 sink before the little mirror, lathering to shave, there .
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