And the next time I find you up to such doings on Sunday or any other day I 'll give you cause to remember it to your latest hour . '' The Story Girl and Peter went humbly home and we went with them . `` I CA N'T understand grown-up people , '' said Felix despairingly . `` When Uncle Edward preached sermons it was all right , but when we do it it is ` making a jest of sacred things . ' And I heard Uncle Alec tell a story once about being nearly frightened to death when he was a little boy , by a minister preaching on the end of the world ; and he said , ` That was something like a sermon . You do n't hear such sermons nowadays . ' But when Peter preaches just such a sermon , it 's a very different story . '' `` It 's no wonder we ca n't understand the grown-ups , '' said the Story Girl indignantly , `` because we 've never been grown-up ourselves . But THEY have been children , and I do n't see why they ca n't understand us . Of course , perhaps we should n't have had the contest on Sundays . But all the same I think it 's mean of Uncle Alec to be so cross . Oh , I do hope poor Sara wo n't have to be taken to the asylum . '' Poor Sara did not have to be . She was eventually quieted down , and was as well as usual the next day ; and she humbly begged Peter 's pardon for spoiling his sermon . Peter granted it rather grumpily , and I fear that he never really quite forgave Sara for her untimely outburst . Felix , too , felt resentment against her , because he had lost the chance of preaching his sermon . `` Of course I know I would n't have got the prize , for I could n't have made such an impression as Peter , '' he said to us mournfully , `` but I 'd like to have had a chance to show what I could do . That 's what comes of having those cry-baby girls mixed up in things . Cecily was just as scared as Sara Ray , but she 'd more sense than to show it like that . '' `` Well , Sara could n't help it , '' said the Story Girl charitably , `` but it does seem as if we 'd had dreadful luck in everything we 've tried lately .
I thought of a new game this morning , but I 'm almost afraid to mention it , XXXXX I suppose something dreadful will come of it , too . ''
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