[The American Baron by James De Mille]@TWC D-Link bookThe American Baron CHAPTER IV 18/35
'Minnie,' she cried, clinging to the child-angel, 'you must not go.
I would not have come up if I had thought you would be so unreasonable.' "'Ethel,' said the other, 'you are really getting to be quite a scold. How ridiculous it is in you to set yourself up in this place as a duenna! How can I help going up? and only one peep.
And I never saw a crater in my life, and I'm dying to know what it looks like.
I know it's awfully funny; and it's horrid in you to be so unkind about it. And I really must go.
Won't you come? Do, do, dear--dearest darling, do--do--do!' "Ethel was firm, however, and tried to dissuade the other, but to no purpose; for at length, with a laugh, the child-angel burst away, and skipped lightly up the slope toward the crater. "'Just one peep,' she said.
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