Aunt Martha did not . She merely said in her fretful mumbling way , `` What foolishness are you young rips up to now ? '' and thought no more about it . Mr. Meredith had gone away early in the morning before any one was up . He went without his breakfast , too , but that was , of course , of common occurrence . Half of the time he forgot it and there was no one to remind him of it . Breakfast -- Aunt Martha 's breakfast -- was not a hard meal to miss . Even the hungry `` young rips '' did not feel it any great deprivation to abstain from the `` lumpy porridge and blue milk '' which had aroused the scorn of Mary Vance . But it was different at dinner time . They were furiously hungry then , and the odor of roast beef which pervaded the manse , and which was wholly delightful in spite of the fact that the roast beef was badly underdone , was almost more than they could stand . In desperation they rushed to the graveyard where they could n't smell it . But Una could not keep her eyes from the dining room window , through which the Upper Lowbridge minister could be seen , placidly eating . `` If I could only have just a weeny , teeny piece , '' she sighed . `` Now , you stop that , '' commanded Jerry . `` Of course it 's hard -- but that 's the punishment of it . I could eat a graven image this very minute , but am I complaining ? Let 's think of something else . We 've just got to rise above our stomachs . '' At supper time they did not feel the pangs of hunger which they had suffered earlier in the day . `` I suppose we 're getting used to it , '' said Faith .
`` I feel an awfully queer all-gone sort XXXXX feeling , but I ca n't say I 'm hungry . ''
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