It was brushed and braided with Puritan simplicity . `` If it 's the Judgment Day I do n't care whether my hair is curly or not , '' she said . `` Well , '' said Aunt Janet , when we all descended to the kitchen , `` this is the first time you young ones have ever all got up without being called , and that 's a fact . '' At breakfast our appetites were poor . How could the grown-ups eat as they did ? After breakfast and the necessary chores there was the forenoon to be lived through . Peter , true to his word , got out his Bible and began to read from the first chapter in Genesis . `` I wo n't have time to read it all through , I s ` pose , '' he said , `` but I 'll get along as far as I can . '' There was no preaching in Carlisle that day , and Sunday School was not till the evening . Cecily got out her Lesson Slip and studied the lesson conscientiously . The rest of us did not see how she could do it . We could not , that was very certain . `` If it is n't the Judgment Day , I want to have the lesson learned , '' she said , `` and if it is I 'll feel I 've done what was right . But I never found it so hard to remember the Golden Text before . '' The long dragging hours were hard to endure . We roamed restlessly about , and went to and fro -- all save Peter , who still steadily read away at his Bible . He was through Genesis by eleven and beginning on Exodus . `` There 's a good deal of it I do n't understand , '' he said , `` but I read every word , and that 's the main thing . That story about Joseph and his brother was so int ` resting I almost forgot about the Judgment Day . '' But the long drawn out dread was beginning to get on Dan 's nerves .
`` If it is the Judgment Day , '' he growled , XXXXX we went in to dinner , `` I wish it 'd hurry up and have it over . ''
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