`` You 'd be so afraid of spoiling your looks that you 'd rather die than make a face , I s ` pose , no matter what you et . '' `` Felicity makes enough faces when there 's nothing to make faces at , '' said Felix , who had been grimaced at over the breakfast table that morning and had n't liked it . `` I think the bitter apples would be real good for Felix , '' said Felicity . `` They say sour things make people thin . '' `` Let 's go and get the bitter apples , '' said Cecily hastily , seeing that Felix , Felicity and Dan were on the verge of a quarrel more bitter than the apples . We went to the seedling tree and got an apple apiece . The game was that every one must take a bite in turn , chew it up , and swallow it , without making a face . Peter again distinguished himself . He , and he alone , passed the ordeal , munching those dreadful mouthfuls without so much as a change of expression on his countenance , while the facial contortions the rest of us went through baffled description . In every subsequent trial it was the same . Peter never made a face , and no one else could help making them . It sent him up fifty per cent in Felicity 's estimation . `` Peter is a real smart boy , '' she said to me . `` It 's such a pity he is a hired boy . '' But , if we could not pass the ordeal , we got any amount of fun out of it , at least . Evening after evening the orchard re-echoed to our peals of laughter . `` Bless the children , '' said Uncle Alec , as he carried the milk pails across the yard . `` Nothing can quench their spirits for long . '' CHAPTER XXVII . THE ORDEAL OF BITTER APPLES I could never understand why Felix took Peter 's success in the Ordeal of Bitter Apples so much to heart .
He had not felt very keenly over the matter of the sermons , and certainly the mere fact XXXXX Peter could eat sour apples without making faces did not cast any reflection on the honour or ability of the other competitors .
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