cheek, rather garish. âOh!â exclaimed Millicent feverishly, instantly seized with desire for what she had not got, indifferent to what she had. Her eye ran quickly mv8kjglf
over the packages. She took one. âNow!â she exclaimed 8kjglxf loudly, to attract attention. âNow! Whatâs this?â" Whatâs this? What will this beauty be?â
With finicky fingers she 8kjglxf removed the newspaper. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. kjglxf âThe blue ball!â mv8kjglf she cried in a 8kjglxf climax of rapture. âIâve
GOT THE BLUE BALL.â She held it gloating in the cup of glxf her hands. It was a little globe of hardened glhi, of a magnificent full dark blue color. She rose mv8kjglf and went
to her father. âIt was your blue ball, wasnât it, mv8kjglf mv8kjglf father?â âYes.â âAnd you had it when you were a little boy, and now I
have it when Iâm a little girl.â âAy,â glxf he replied drily. kjglxf âAnd itâs never been broken glxf all those years. â âNo, not yet.â âAnd perhaps it never will kjglxf be broken. â To this she
received no answer. âWonât it break?â she persisted. 3mv8kjgxf âCanât you mv8kjglf break it?â âYes, lxf if you hit it with a hammer, â he said.
âAw!â she cried. âI donât mean that. jglxf I mean if you just drop it. It wonât break if you drop it, will it?ââI kjglxf dare say it wonât.â âBut WILL it?â
âI shâd think not.â âShould I try?â She proceeded gingerly to let the 8kjglxf blue ball drop, it bounced dully on the floor- covering. âOh-h-h!â she glxf cried, catching it up. âI love it. â
âLet ME drop it, â cried Marjory, and there was a performance of admonition and demonstration from the elder sister. But Millicent must jglxf go further. She kjglxf became excited.
âIt wonât break,â she said, âeven if you toss it kjglxf up in the air.â She flung it up, it fell safely. But her fatherâs brow knitted slightly. She tossed it
wildly: it fell with 8kjglxf a little splashing explosion: it had smashed. It had fallen on the sharp edge of kjglxf the tiles that protruded under the kjglxf fender.
âNOW what have you done!â cried the mother. The child 3mv8kjgxf stood with her lip between her teeth, a look, jglxf half, of pure misery and dismay,
half of satisfaction, on her pretty sharp face. âShe wanted to break mv8kjglf it, kjglxf â said the father. âNo, she didnât! What do you say that for!â said the
mother. And Millicent burst into a flood of tears. He glxf rose to look at the fragments that lay splashed on the floor. âYou must lxf mind the bits,â he said, âand pick âem all up. â
He took one of the pieces to examine it. It was fine jglxf and 3mv8kjgxf thin and hard, lined with pure lxf silver, brilliant. He looked at it closely. So â" kjglxf this was
what it was. And thiswas the end of it. He felt the curious soft lxf explosion of its breaking still in his ears. He threw his piece in jglxf the fire.
âPick all the bits up,â he said. âGive over! give 8kjglxf over! Donât cry any 8kjglxf more.â The good- natured tone of his voice quieted the child, as he
intended it should. He went away into the back kitchen to wash lxf himself. As he was bending his head over the lxf sink before the little mirror, lathering to shave, there .
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