Mamma doesn't ever tell tales on us, I'm sure." "No, I don't believe she does.

But what did papa say then ?" "That you should tell him all about it yourself; you were an honest child, serious as your faults were, and lie could trust you to own the truth, even when you were to be punished for it.

But, Lulu, you have to go right up to the house; papa said 'immediately.'" "Yes," Lulu replied, getting upon her feet very slowly, and looking a good deal frightened; "did papa seem very angry ?" "I think he intends to punish you," Grace replied, in a sorrowful tone; "but maybe he won't if you say you're sorry and won't do so any more.
But hurry, Lulu, or he may punish you for not obeying promptly." "Is Mamma Vi there ?" asked Lulu, still lingering.
"No; yonder she is; don't you see ?" said Grace, nodding her head in the direction of the awning under which nearly their whole party were now seated: "there's nobody there but papa.

Oh hurry, Lulu, or he will whip you, I'm afraid." "Don't you ever say that before anybody, Gracie," Lulu said, low and tremulously; then turned and walked rapidly toward the stairway that led up the bluff to the cottages.
At a window looking toward the bluff the captain stood, watching for Lulu's coming.
"She is not yielding very prompt obedience to the order," he said to himself; "but what wonder?
The poor child doubtless dreads the interview extremely; in fact, _I_ should be only too glad to escape it; 'tis no agreeable task to have to deal out justice to one's own child--a child so lovable, in spite of her faults.

How much easier to pass the matter over slightly, merely administering a gentle reprimand! But no, I cannot; 'twould be like healing slightly the festering sore that threatens the citadel of life.