Do n't see how we can do anything else to show we are grateful . '' `` It is n't easy to be good when one is sick , '' said Jill , thoughtfully . `` I fret dreadfully , I get so tired of being still . I want to scream sometimes , but I do n't , because it would scare Mammy , so I cry . Do you cry , Jack ? '' `` Men never do . I want to tramp round when things bother me ; but I ca n't , so I kick and say , ` Hang it ! ' and when I get very bad I pitch into Frank , and he lets me . I tell you , Jill , he 's a good brother ! '' and Jack privately resolved then and there to invite Frank to take it out of him in any form he pleased as soon as health would permit . `` I rather think we shall grow good in this pretty place , for I do n't see how we can be bad if we want to , it is all so nice and sort of pious here , '' said Jill , with her eyes on the angel over the tree . `` A fellow can be awfully hungry , I know that . I did n't half eat breakfast , I was in such a hurry to see you , and know all about the secrets . Frank kept saying I could n't guess , that you had come , and I never would be ready , till finally I got mad and fired an egg at him , and made no end of a mess . '' Jack and Jill went off into a gale of laughter at the idea of dignified Frank dodging the egg that smashed on the wall , leaving an indelible mark of Jack 's besetting sin , impatience . Just then Mrs. Minot came in , well pleased to hear such pleasant sounds , and to see two merry faces , where usually one listless one met her anxious eyes . `` The new medicine works well , neighbor , '' she said to Mrs. Pecq , who followed with the lunch tray . `` Indeed it does , mem . I feel as if I 'd taken a sup myself , I 'm that easy in my mind . '' And she looked so , too , for she seemed to have left all her cares in the little house when she locked the door behind her , and now stood smiling with a clean apron on , so fresh and cheerful , that Jill hardly knew her own mother .
`` Things taste better when you have someone to eat with you , '' observed XXXXX , as they devoured sandwiches , and drank milk out of little mugs with rosebuds on them .
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