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 a5421gev
over the packages. She took one. âNow!â she exclaimed 421ge6v loudly, to attract attention. âNow! Whatâs this?â" Whatâs this? What will this beauty be?â
With finicky fingers she 421ge6v removed the newspaper. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. 21ge6v âThe blue ball!â a5421gev she cried in a 421ge6v climax of rapture. âIâve
GOT THE BLUE BALL.â She held it gloating in the cup of ge6v her hands. It was a little globe of hardened glhi, of a magnificent full dark blue color. She rose a5421gev and went
to her father. âIt was your blue ball, wasnât it, a5421gev a5421gev 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 ge6v he replied drily. 21ge6v âAnd itâs never been broken ge6v all those years. â âNo, not yet.â âAnd perhaps it never will 21ge6v be broken. â To this she
received no answer. âWonât it break?â she persisted. wa5421g6v âCanât you a5421gev break it?â âYes, e6v if you hit it with a hammer, â he said.
âAw!â she cried. âI donât mean that. 1ge6v I mean if you just drop it. It wonât break if you drop it, will it?ââI 21ge6v dare say it wonât.â âBut WILL it?â
âI shâd think not.â âShould I try?â She proceeded gingerly to let the 421ge6v blue ball drop, it bounced dully on the floor- covering. âOh-h-h!â she ge6v 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 1ge6v go further. She 21ge6v became excited.
âIt wonât break,â she said, âeven if you toss it 21ge6v 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 421ge6v a little splashing explosion: it had smashed. It had fallen on the sharp edge of 21ge6v the tiles that protruded under the 21ge6v fender.
âNOW what have you done!â cried the mother. The child wa5421g6v stood with her lip between her teeth, a look, 1ge6v half, of pure misery and dismay,
half of satisfaction, on her pretty sharp face. âShe wanted to break a5421gev it, 21ge6v 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 ge6v rose to look at the fragments that lay splashed on the floor. âYou must e6v mind the bits,â he said, âand pick âem all up. â
He took one of the pieces to examine it. It was fine 1ge6v and wa5421g6v thin and hard, lined with pure e6v silver, brilliant. He looked at it closely. So â" 21ge6v this was
what it was. And thiswas the end of it. He felt the curious soft e6v explosion of its breaking still in his ears. He threw his piece in 1ge6v the fire.
âPick all the bits up,â he said. âGive over! give 421ge6v over! Donât cry any 421ge6v 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 e6v himself. As he was bending his head over the e6v sink before the little mirror, lathering to shave, there .
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