`` The other day I found this statement in a book . ` Her voice would have made the multiplication table charming ! ' I thought of it when I heard yours . I did n't believe it before , but I do now . '' Then he let us go . `` You see , '' said the Story Girl as we went home , `` you need never be afraid of people . '' `` But we are not all Story Girls , '' said Cecily . That night we heard Felicity talking to Cecily in their room . `` Mr. Campbell never noticed one of us except the Story Girl , '' she said , `` but if I had put on MY best dress as she did maybe she would n't have taken all the attention . '' `` Could you ever do what Betty Sherman did , do you suppose ? '' asked Cecily absently . `` No ; but I believe the Story Girl could , '' answered Felicity rather snappishly . CHAPTER VIII . A TRAGEDY OF CHILDHOOD The Story Girl went to Charlottetown for a week in June to visit Aunt Louisa . Life seemed very colourless without her , and even Felicity admitted that it was lonesome . But three days after her departure Felix told us something on the way home from school which lent some spice to existence immediately . `` What do you think ? '' he said in a very solemn , yet excited , tone . `` Jerry Cowan told me at recess this afternoon that he HAD SEEN A PICTURE OF GOD -- that he has it at home in an old , red-covered history of the world , and has looked at it OFTEN . '' To think that Jerry Cowan should have seen such a picture often !
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