I thought Daisy would like a fiddle , and Nat can find her a beau , ' continued the sailor , with a laugh , as he undid a dainty filigree brooch in the shape of a violin . ' I know she will , and I 'll take it to her , ' answered Nat , as he vanished , glad of an errand , and sure that he could find Daisy though Emil had missed her . Emil chuckled , and handed out a quaintly carved bear whose head opened , showing a capacious ink-stand . This he presented , with a scrape , to Aunt Jo . ` Knowing your fondness for these fine animals , I brought this one to your pen . ' ` Very good , Commodore ! Try again , ' said Mrs Jo , much pleased with her gift , which caused the Professor to prophesy ` works of Shakespeare ' from its depths , so great would be the inspiration of the beloved bruin . ` As Aunt Meg will wear caps , in spite of her youth , I got Ludmilla to get me some bits of lace . Hope you 'll like 'em ' ; and out of a soft paper came some filmy things , one of which soon lay like a net of snowflakes on Mrs Meg 's pretty hair . ' I could n't find anything swell enough for Aunt Amy , because she has everything she wants , so I brought a little picture that always makes me think of her when Bess was a baby ' ; and he handed her an oval ivory locket , on which was painted a goldenhaired Madonna , with a rosy child folded in her blue mantle . ` How lovely ! ' cried everyone ; and Aunt Amy at once hung it about her neck on the blue ribbon from Bess 's hair , charmed with her gift ; for it recalled the happiest year of her life . ` Now , I flatter myself I 've got just the thing for Nan , neat but not gaudy , a sort of sign you see , and very appropriate for a doctor , ' said Emil , proudly displaying a pair of lava earrings shaped like little skulls . ` Horrid ! ' And Bess , who hated ugly things , turned her eyes to her own pretty shells . ` She wo n't wear earrings , ' said Josie . ` Well , she 'll enjoy punching your ears then . She 's never so happy as when she 's overhauling her fellow creatures and going for 'em with a knife , ' answered Emil , undisturbed . ` I 've got a lot of plunder for you fellows in my chest , but I knew I should have no peace till my cargo for the girls was unloaded . Now tell me all the news . '
And , seated on Amy 's best marbletopped table , the sailor swung his legs and talked at the rate of ten knots an hour , till Aunt XXXXX carried them all off to a grand family tea in honour of the Commodore .
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