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Seven Little Australians

CHAPTER XIX
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They will see it right enough, but they won't like you to draw their attention to it.

Try and look gentle and forgiving--they'll feel quite as miserable as you could wish them to feel.

The world has a beautiful frown of its own, and an endless vocabulary of cold words--wouldn't it do if the little sisters left it the monopoly of them ?" "Oh-h-h!" said Meg.

Her cheeks were crimson, and all the dignity had oozed out of her voice.
He buckled the strap round nothing with infinite care, and went on again in a low tone: "Suppose Pip did something very wrong some day, and the world flung stones at him till he was bruised all over.

And suppose feeling very wretched, he came home to his sisters.


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