`` Now you see all your penance was wasted , '' said Felicity , as we walked home , keeping close together because of the rumour that Peg Bowen was abroad . `` Oh , I do n't know . I feel better since I punished myself . But I 'm going to make up for it to-morrow , '' said the Story Girl energetically . `` In fact , I 'll begin to-night . I 'm going to the pantry as soon as I get home , and I 'll read father 's letter before I go to bed . Was n't the missionary splendid ? That cannibal story was simply grand . I tried to remember every word , so that I can tell it just as he told it . Missionaries are such noble people . '' `` I 'd like to be a missionary and have adventures like that , '' said Felix . `` It would be all right if you could be sure the cannibals would be interrupted in the nick of time as his were , '' said Dan . `` But sposen they were n't ? '' `` Nothing would prevent cannibals from eating Felix if they once caught him , '' giggled Felicity . `` He 's so nice and fat . '' I am sure Felix felt very unlike a missionary at that precise moment . `` I 'm going to put two cents more a week in my missionary box than I 've been doing , '' said Cecily determinedly . Two cents more a week out of Cecily 's egg money , meant something of a sacrifice . It inspired the rest of us . We all decided to increase our weekly contribution by a cent or so .
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