He always used to be so nice and kind to me, and to you, too, and so I used to be fond of him--he is my uncle too--but a box on the ears, a slap such as the cook might give to the turnspit--I am too big for that; that I will certainly not put up with it! Since my last birthday all the slaves and upper servants, too, have had to treat me as a lady and to bow down to me! And now!--it was just here .-- How dare he ?" She began to cry again and sobbed out: "But that was not all.

He locked me into the dark tablinum and left--left me...." her tears flowed faster and faster, "left me sitting there! It was so horrible; and I might have been there now if I had not found a gold plate; I seized my great-grandfather--I mean the silver image of Menas, and hammered on it, and screamed Fire! Then Sebek heard me and fetched Orion, and he let me out, and made such a fuss over me and kissed me.
But what is the good of that; my grandfather will be angry, for in my terror I beat his father's nose quite flat on the plate." Paula had listened, now amused and now grave, to the little girl's story; when she ceased, she once more wiped her eyes and said: "Your uncle is a man, and you must not play with him as if he were a child like yourself.

The reminder you got was rather a hard one, no doubt, but Orion tried to make up for it .-- But the great hunt, what was that ?" At this question Mary's eyes suddenly sparkled again.

In an instant all her woes were forgotten, even her ancestor's flattened nose, and with a merry, hearty laugh she exclaimed: "Oh! you should have seen it! You would have been amused too.

They wanted to catch the bad man who cut the emerald out of the hanging.