It would be more than flesh and blood could endure . I MUST hear that missionary speak . They say he was all but eaten by cannibals once . Just think how many new stories I 'd have to tell after I 'd heard him ! No , I must go , but I 'll tell you what I 'll do . I 'll wear my school dress and hat . THAT will be penance . Felicity , when you set the table for dinner , put the broken-handled knife for me . I hate it so . And I 'm going to take a dose of Mexican Tea every two hours . It 's such dreadful tasting stuff -- but it 's a good blood purifier , so Aunt Janet ca n't object to it . '' The Story Girl carried out her self-imposed penance fully . All day she sat in the kitchen and worked buttonholes , subsisting on bread and water and Mexican Tea . Felicity did a mean thing . She went to work and made little raisin pies , right there in the kitchen before the Story Girl . The smell of raisin pies is something to tempt an anchorite ; and the Story Girl was exceedingly fond of them . Felicity ate two in her very presence , and then brought the rest out to us in the orchard . The Story Girl could see us through the window , carousing without stint on raisin pies and Uncle Edward 's cherries . But she worked on at her buttonholes . She would not look at the exciting serial in the new magazine Dan brought home from the post-office , neither would she open a letter from her father .
Pat came over , but his most seductive purrs won no notice XXXXX his mistress , who refused herself the pleasure of even patting him .
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