[Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson]@TWC D-Link bookTenterhooks CHAPTER VIII 6/6
She says she can't bear me to.
Then she goes and tells Miss Townsend I slapped her, and Miss Townsend blames me.' 'Then you shouldn't have slapped her; it was horrid of you; you ought to remember she's a little girl and weaker than you.' 'I did remember...' 'Oh, Archie!' 'Well, I'll make it up if she begs my pardon; not unless she does I sha'n't,' said Archie magnanimously. 'I shall certainly not allow her to do anything of the kind.' At this moment Dilly came in, with her finger in her tiny mouth, and went up to Archie, drawling with a pout, and in a whining voice: 'I didn't mean to.' Archie beamed at once. 'That's all right, Dilly,' he said forgivingly. Then he turned to his mother. 'Mother, have you got that paper ?' 'Yes, I have indeed!' 'Well, cross out--that, and put in Aspasia Matilda Ottley.
Sorry, Dilly!' He kissed her, and they ran off together hand in hand; looking like cherubs, and laughing musically..
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