I should never have thought of it myself -- not that Jill is any smarter than I am , either , but girls are such creatures for planning up mischief and leading other folks into it and then laying the blame on them when things go wrong . How could I tell Dick would act so like a mule ? I thought grown-up folks had more sense . Aunt Tommy was down on me for weeks , while she thought Jill a regular heroine . But there ! Girls do n't know anything about being fair , and I am determined I will never have anything more to do with them and their love affairs as long as I live . Jill says I will change my mind when I grow up , but I wo n't . Still , Jill is a pretty good sort of girl . I have to scold her sometimes , but if any other chap tried to I would punch his head for him . I suppose it is time I explained who Dick and Aunt Tommy are . Dick is our minister . He has n't been it very long . He only came a year ago . I shall never forget how surprised Jill and I were that first Sunday we went to church and saw him . We had always thought that ministers had to be old . All the ministers we knew were . Mr. Grinnell , the one before Dick came , must have been as old as Methuselah . But Dick was young -- and good-looking . Jill said she thought it a positive sin for a minister to be so good-looking , it did n't seem Christian ; but that was just because all the ministers we knew happened to be homely so that it did n't appear natural . Dick was tall and pale and looked as if he had heaps of brains .
He had thick curly brown hair and big dark blue eyes -- Jill said his eyes were XXXXX an archangel 's , but how could she tell ?
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