4/41 You only try to talk like one--sometimes." "I claim a truce until after breakfast. If my rough compliment offends you, let me depend upon a more gentle tongue than my own-- "'Her Angel's face As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.' "Those lines are surely appropriate. They come from the _Faerie Queene_." "They are very nice, but please wash quickly. The eggs will be hard." "Eggs!" "Yes; I made a collection among the trees. |