Aunt Olivia assented lightly , swinging her hat on her arm and including us all in a friendly smile . She looked very pretty , with her big blue eyes and warm-hued golden hair . We loved Aunt Olivia ; but just now we resented her having laughed at us with Aunt Janet , and we refused to smile back . `` What a sulky , sulky lot of little people , '' said Aunt Olivia , going away across the yard , holding her pretty dress up from the dewy grass . Peter resolved to stay all night with us , too , not troubling himself about anybody 's permission . When we went to bed it was settling down for a stormy night , and the rain was streaming wetly on the roof , as if the world , like Sara Ray , were weeping because its end was so near . Nobody forgot or hurried over his prayers that night . We would dearly have loved to leave the candle burning , but Aunt Janet 's decree regarding this was as inexorable as any of Mede and Persia . Out the candle must go ; and we lay there , quaking , with the wild rain streaming down on the roof above us , and the voices of the storm wailing through the writhing spruce trees . CHAPTER XX . THE JUDGMENT SUNDAY Sunday morning broke , dull and gray . The rain had ceased , but the clouds hung dark and brooding above a world which , in its windless calm , following the spent storm-throe , seemed to us to be waiting `` till judgment spoke the doom of fate . '' We were all up early . None of us , it appeared , had slept well , and some of us not at all . The Story Girl had been among the latter , and she looked very pale and wan , with black shadows under her deep-set eyes . Peter , however , had slept soundly enough after twelve o'clock . `` When you 've been stumping out elderberries all the afternoon it 'll take more than the Judgment Day to keep you awake all night , '' he said . `` But when I woke up this morning it was just awful . I 'd forgot it for a moment , and then it all came back with a rush , and I was worse scared than before . '' Cecily was pale but brave .
For the first time XXXXX years she had not put her hair up in curlers on Saturday night .
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