To be sure , a little way off I 'll look like a walking barber 's pole . Do you know that that Gilbert of yours has been elected Captain of the Freshman football team ? '' `` Yes , he told us so last evening , '' said Priscilla , seeing that outraged Anne would not answer . `` He and Charlie were down . We knew they were coming , so we painstakingly put out of sight or out of reach all Miss Ada 's cushions . That very elaborate one with the raised embroidery I dropped on the floor in the corner behind the chair it was on . I thought it would be safe there . But would you believe it ? Charlie Sloane made for that chair , noticed the cushion behind it , solemnly fished it up , and sat on it the whole evening . Such a wreck of a cushion as it was ! Poor Miss Ada asked me today , still smiling , but oh , so reproachfully , why I had allowed it to be sat upon . I told her I had n't -- that it was a matter of predestination coupled with inveterate Sloanishness and I was n't a match for both combined . '' `` Miss Ada 's cushions are really getting on my nerves , '' said Anne . `` She finished two new ones last week , stuffed and embroidered within an inch of their lives . There being absolutely no other cushionless place to put them she stood them up against the wall on the stair landing . They topple over half the time and if we come up or down the stairs in the dark we fall over them . Last Sunday , when Dr. Davis prayed for all those exposed to the perils of the sea , I added in thought ` and for all those who live in houses where cushions are loved not wisely but too well ! ' There ! we 're ready , and I see the boys coming through Old St. John 's . Do you cast in your lot with us , Phil ? ''
`` I 'll go , XXXXX I can walk with Priscilla and Charlie .
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