Oh , if only Irene would stop looking at that boot ! Rilla could just hear her giving Olive Kirk an account of it . `` I do n't see how I really can at the last moment like this , '' protested Irene . `` There is n't time to learn anything new . '' `` Oh , you have lots of lovely songs that nobody in the Glen ever heard before , '' said Rilla , who knew Irene had been going to town all winter for lessons and that this was only a pretext . `` They will all be new down there . '' `` But I have no accompanist , '' protested Irene . `` Una Meredith can accompany you , '' said Rilla . `` Oh , I could n't ask her , '' sighed Irene . `` We have n't spoken since last fall . She was so hateful to me the time of our Sunday-school concert that I simply had to give her up . '' Dear , dear , was Irene at feud with everybody ? As for Una Meredith being hateful to anybody , the idea was so farcical that Rilla had much ado to keep from laughing in Irene 's very face . `` Miss Oliver is a beautiful pianist and can play any accompaniment at sight , '' said Rilla desperately . `` She will play for you and you could run over your songs easily tomorrow evening at Ingleside before the concert . '' `` But I have n't anything to wear . My new evening-dress is n't home from Charlottetown yet , and I simply can not wear my old one at such a big affair . It is too shabby and old-fashioned . '' `` Our concert , '' said Rilla slowly , `` is in aid of Belgian children who are starving to death . Do n't you think you could wear a shabby dress once for their sake , Irene ? ''
`` Oh , do n't you think those accounts we get of the conditions XXXXX the Belgians are very much exaggerated ? ''
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