It became her perfectly , bringing out all the delicate , flower-like tints of her face and the gloss and burnish of her hair . `` Davy , how many times have I told you that you must n't use that word , '' she rebuked . `` I 'm going to Echo Lodge . '' `` Take me with you , '' entreated Davy . `` I would if I were driving . But I 'm going to walk and it 's too far for your eight-year-old legs . Besides , Paul is going with me and I fear you do n't enjoy yourself in his company . '' `` Oh , I like Paul lots better 'n I did , '' said Davy , beginning to make fearful inroads into his pudding . `` Since I 've got pretty good myself I do n't mind his being gooder so much . If I can keep on I 'll catch up with him some day , both in legs and goodness . ` Sides , Paul 's real nice to us second primer boys in school . He wo n't let the other big boys meddle with us and he shows us lots of games . '' `` How came Paul to fall into the brook at noon hour yesterday ? '' asked Anne . `` I met him on the playground , such a dripping figure that I sent him promptly home for clothes without waiting to find out what had happened . '' `` Well , it was partly a zacksident , '' explained Davy . `` He stuck his head in on purpose but the rest of him fell in zacksidentally . We was all down at the brook and Prillie Rogerson got mad at Paul about something ... she 's awful mean and horrid anyway , if she IS pretty ... and said that his grandmother put his hair up in curl rags every night . Paul would n't have minded what she said , I guess , but Gracie Andrews laughed , and Paul got awful red , 'cause Gracie 's his girl , you know . He 's CLEAN GONE on her ... brings her flowers and carries her books as far as the shore road .
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