`` Nobody but a Cowan would do it , and that 's a fact , '' said Dan . `` When we get it we 'll keep it in the family Bible , '' said Felicity . `` That 's the only proper place . '' `` Oh , I wonder what it will be like , '' breathed Cecily . We all wondered . Next day in school we agreed to Jerry Cowan 's terms , and Jerry promised to bring the picture up to Uncle Alec 's the following afternoon . We were all intensely excited Saturday morning . To our dismay , it began to rain just before dinner . `` What if Jerry does n't bring the picture to-day because of the rain ? '' I suggested . `` Never you fear , '' answered Felicity decidedly . `` A Cowan would come through ANYTHING for fifty cents . '' After dinner we all , without any verbal decision about it , washed our faces and combed our hair . The girls put on their second best dresses , and we boys donned white collars . We all had the unuttered feeling that we must do such honour to that Picture as we could . Felicity and Dan began a small spat over something , but stopped at once when Cecily said severely , `` How DARE you quarrel when you are going to look at a picture of God to-day ? '' Owing to the rain we could not foregather in the orchard , where we had meant to transact the business with Jerry . We did not wish our grown-ups around at our great moment , so we betook ourselves to the loft of the granary in the spruce wood , from whose window we could see the main road and hail Jerry . Sara Ray had joined us , very pale and nervous , having had , so it appeared , a difference of opinion with her mother about coming up the hill in the rain . `` I 'm afraid I did very wrong to come against ma 's will , '' she said miserably , `` but I COULD N'T wait .
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