Excerpt: ...to begin immediately after dinner. It was a dull November day, cloudy and damp, and while they were settling themselves to work, the rain began to patter against the window-panes. "How cosy and shut-in it makes you feel!" exclaimed Katie, looking around on the bright, comfortable room. "We are shut in," answered Lloyd. "The Clark girls and Magnolia have gone home to stay ovah Sunday, and we have this whole wing to ourselves. Nobody can heah us, no mattah how loud we talk." 159 "Let's put up the sign, 'No ...
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Excerpt: ...to begin immediately after dinner. It was a dull November day, cloudy and damp, and while they were settling themselves to work, the rain began to patter against the window-panes. "How cosy and shut-in it makes you feel!" exclaimed Katie, looking around on the bright, comfortable room. "We are shut in," answered Lloyd. "The Clark girls and Magnolia have gone home to stay ovah Sunday, and we have this whole wing to ourselves. Nobody can heah us, no mattah how loud we talk." 159 "Let's put up the sign, 'No admittance. Busy, ' on the corridor door leading into our hall," suggested Ida. "On a rainy afternoon like this, when the girls can't get out-doors, they're more apt to go visiting, and we don't want to be interrupted." "That's so," agreed Lloyd. Hastily scribbling the notice on an envelope, she ran out and fastened it on the door with a pin. "Now we're safe," she announced on her return, and settled herself comfortably among the cushions of the window-seat. For half an hour their needles and brushes were plied rapidly, as they chattered and laughed over the various remarks they had heard about the mysterious Hallowe'en guests. Who they were still remained an unsolved riddle in the school. Presently Ida dropped her embroidery-hoops and leaned back in her chair yawning. "Oh, I'm in no mood for work of this kind! My silks snarl, my needle keeps coming unthreaded, and I stick myself nearly every time I take a stitch. I'm making such a mess of it I'd stop only I don't want to shirk my part when you are all working so faithfully. When my embroidery acts this way it makes me so nervous I could scream." 160 "Why don't you do some more burnt-work instead?" suggested Katie. "I'm out of leather. The last lot I sent for hasn't come." "You might read to us while we work," suggested Betty. "There's a new St. Nicholas on the table." "Yes, do," insisted Allison. "Mother said this morning that she thought it would be a fine plan for us to take up some good book and...
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