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“I am not allowed to touch Uncle Julian’s things. I shall have a lining of moss, for cold winter days, and a hat made of bird feathers.”
“That may be all very well for the moon, Miss Foolishness. On the moon you may wear a suit of fur like Jonas, for all of me.
No; I am not allowed to touch Uncle Julian’s things; I will wear leaves.”
boys,” the second woman said; she was one of the bad ones; I could see her mouth from the side and it was the mouth of a snake.
Constance looked up to where his face must be and smiled unpleasantly. I thought it must be a smile she had been saving for Charles if he ever came back again.
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we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky. “I am so happy,” Constance said at last, gasping. “Merricat, I am so happy.” “I told you that you would like it on the moon.”
We were very happy, although Constance was always in terror lest one of our two cups should break, and one of us have to use a cup without a handle.
My new magical safeguards were the lock on the front door, and the boards over the windows, and the barricades along the sides of the house.
“The least Charles could have done,” Constance said, considering seriously, “was shoot himself through the head in the driveway.”
“Perhaps he had a good whipping to teach him manners.” “We will have an omelette for breakfast.” “I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.” “I doubt if I could cook one,” said Constance. “Poor strangers,” I said. “They have so much to be afraid of.” “Well,” Constance said, “I am afraid of spiders.”
