[Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott]@TWC D-Link bookJack and Jill CHAPTER XI 9/11
He will tell us what to do and what to expect.
Gus must not suffer for your fault." "He'll come off clear enough, but Joe must take his share, for if he hadn't opened that confounded switch, no harm would have been done.
But when I saw the way clear, I actually couldn't resist going ahead," said Frank, getting excited again at the memory of that blissful moment when he started the engine. Here Jack came hurrying in, having heard the news, and refused to believe it from any lips but Frank's.
When he could no longer doubt, he was so much impressed with the daring of the deed that he had nothing but admiration for his brother, till a sudden thought made him clap his hands and exclaim exultingly,-- "His runaway beats mine all hollow, and now he can't crow over me! Won't that be a comfort? The good boy has got into a scrape.
Hooray!" This was such a droll way of taking it, that they had to laugh; and Frank took his humiliation so meekly that Jack soon fell to comforting him, instead of crowing over him. Jill thought it a most interesting event; and, when Frank and his mother went over to consult Mr.Burton, she and Jack planned out for the dear culprit a dramatic trial which would have convulsed the soberest of judges.
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