Rosemary

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erry face regarding her o

sked ungraciously. "Don't you d

en," said the boy obligi

ars old, with a freckled snub nose, engaging brown eyes an

semary?" he

lunch," answered Sarah. "Don't you th

bit and Sarah waited Ja

"You're always fussing with animals, aren't you, Sarah? I believe you like '

le face kindled suddenly w

and they died and Elinor would have died, too, if it hadn't been for me. When I grow up, I'm goi

ver mind, Sarah, there'll always be plenty of animals needing a friend like you. Maybe Hugh will do

or Hugh, coming across the grass toward the fenc

cured this early in the day? Sarah is going to follow in your footsteps,

ief difficulty now is to find some one to surprise. Aunt Trudy has gone to the library, Winnie says, Shirley is playing with some neighbor's child on

ng rod," Jack explained. "It's a beauty

shook a lapful of d

el to catch fish," s

?" retorted Jack. "Someone h

rgument and she turned and retreate

mals and always fussing over 'em. Well, I have to go dig worms for bait-gre

going back to his office to indulge in t

doctor wondered lazily if the bread were a real need or a handy invention of Winnie's to break up the musical program; she was quite capable of the latter. After the piano was silenced, he lost himself again in his book to be recalled by an

s were almost black with excitement and a touch of fear. But it was her hair that held her brother's attention. Gone was the rippling glory, the gold-red

receded, leaving him white. Before he cou

bbed. "I want my h

he fled into them. She clung to him frantica

"The barber didn't want to cut it, but I made him. And then, as soon as I saw it on the floo

pped head with a gentle touch. Presently when Rosemary sat up and

ry. "The barber tied it up for me-he

dear, and I'll see that a lock is saved for Mother. You mustn't feel so badl

nd things out for myself? I didn't know that I hated

do we all want our own way at any cost? You wouldn't b

shed and loo

life and always have your own way, child. No one can. Each one of us must acknowledge some authority. I'm a good many years older than you girls and I've had more experience and discipline and at present I am taking Mother's

" asked Rosemary, shyly.

gh's mout

other with a gun-powder temper that sometimes gets the best of me

osemary. "She says I have it and so have Sa

more often it is foolish obstinacy. A stiff will keeps us from being persuaded to do wrong, from tumbling into pitfalls. It is the weak-willed person who yields to temptation. You and I, and Shirley and Sarah, have constant

ry remained in her brother's lap quietly, her eyes downcast.

o punish me?" sh

ok his

s remember, and you are not going to forget, are you? But I tell yo

ry was

"Just do not go over to her house so often and by and by she will not come to see

know you don't," Rosemary

she has all the ideas and manners of a girl of eighteen. And you're still a little girl, Rosemary, thank fortune. I don't want you to grow up too fast and it would break Mother's heart to come home and find a grown up daughter in the pla

rms around his neck. "I love yo

disputed his edicts and decisions. There were misunderstandings and tears and many hard lessons to be learned still ahead. But Hugh would never again be a stranger with her respect and lo

d endured the comments and questions of the household at dinner that night with fair composure,

ments on a person's personal appearance," declared Rosemar

ut it might look worse, Rosemary, honestly it might. I think

itted herself

e laughed. "And my head fe

didn't you ask him? And Aunt Trudy makes such

xpressive fa

ly. She cried and cried and said what would my mother say and wasn't I ever go

usual perverse small self," declared Jack shrewdly. "I'll bet Hugh didn't w

over. And Aunt Trudy doesn't cry because she is sorry-she does it to get her own way. That's

mad I could throw a sofa cushion at her. You needn't look a