`` Nothing would prevent cannibals from eating Felix if they once caught him , '' giggled Felicity . `` He 's so nice and fat . '' I am sure Felix felt very unlike a missionary at that precise moment . `` I 'm going to put two cents more a week in my missionary box than I 've been doing , '' said Cecily determinedly . Two cents more a week out of Cecily 's egg money , meant something of a sacrifice . It inspired the rest of us . We all decided to increase our weekly contribution by a cent or so . And Peter , who had had no missionary box at all , up to this time , determined to start one . `` I do n't seem to be able to feel as int ` rested in missionaries as you folks do , '' he said , `` but maybe if I begin to give something I 'll get int ` rested . I 'll want to know how my money 's being spent . I wo n't be able to give much . When your father 's run away , and your mother goes out washing , and you 're only old enough to get fifty cents a week , you ca n't give much to the heathen . But I 'll do the best I can . My Aunt Jane was fond of missions . Are there any Methodist heathen ? I s ` pose I ought to give my box to them , rather than to Presbyterian heathen . '' `` No , it 's only after they 're converted that they 're anything in particular , '' said Felicity . `` Before that , they 're just plain heathen . But if you want your money to go to a Methodist missionary you can give it to the Methodist minister at Markdale . I guess the Presbyterians can get along without it , and look after their own heathen . ''
`` Just smell Mrs. Sampson 's flowers , '' said Cecily , as we passed a trim white paling close to the road , over which blew odours sweeter XXXXX the perfume of Araby 's shore .
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