Felicity could have forgiven Uncle Roger anything but that . It really was unpardonable . She confided to me as we climbed the stairs that she hated Uncle Roger . Her red lips quivered and the tears of wounded pride brimmed over in her beautiful blue eyes . In the dim candle-light she looked unbelievably pretty and appealing . I put my arm about her and gave her a cousinly salute . `` Never you mind him , Felicity , '' I said . `` He 's only a grown-up . '' CHAPTER XVI . THE GHOSTLY BELL Friday was a comfortable day in the household of King . Everybody was in good humour . The Story Girl sparkled through several tales that ranged from the afrites and jinns of Eastern myth , through the piping days of chivalry , down to the homely anecdotes of Carlisle workaday folks . She was in turn an Oriental princess behind a silken veil , the bride who followed her bridegroom to the wars of Palestine disguised as a page , the gallant lady who ransomed her diamond necklace by dancing a coranto with a highwayman on a moonlit heath , and `` Buskirk 's girl '' who joined the Sons and Daughters of Temperance `` just to see what was into it ; '' and in each impersonation she was so thoroughly the thing impersonated that it was a matter of surprise to us when she emerged from each our own familiar Story Girl again . Cecily and Sara Ray found a `` sweet '' new knitted lace pattern in an old magazine and spent a happy afternoon learning it and `` talking secrets . '' Chancing -- accidentally , I vow -- to overhear certain of these secrets , I learned that Sara Ray had named an apple for Johnny Price -- `` and , Cecily , true 's you live , there was eight seeds in it , and you know eight means ` they both love ' '' -- while Cecily admitted that Willy Fraser had written on his slate and showed it to her , `` If you love me as I love you , No knife can cut our love in two '' -- `` but , Sara Ray , NEVER you breathe this to a living soul . '' Felix also averred that he heard Sara ask Cecily very seriously , `` Cecily , how old must we be before we can have a REAL beau ? '' But Sara always denied it ; so I am inclined to believe Felix simply made it up himself . Paddy distinguished himself by catching a rat , and being intolerably conceited about it -- until Sara Ray cured him by calling him a `` dear , sweet cat , '' and kissing him between the ears . Then Pat sneaked abjectly off , his tail drooping . He resented being called a sweet cat .
He had a sense XXXXX humour , had Pat .
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