`` 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 , as we went in to dinner , `` I wish it 'd hurry up and have it over . '' `` Oh , Dan ! '' cried Felicity and Cecily together , in a chorus of horror . But the Story Girl looked as if she rather sympathized with Dan . If we had eaten little at breakfast we could eat still less at dinner . After dinner the clouds rolled away , and the sun came joyously and gloriously out . This , we thought , was a good omen . Felicity opined that it would n't have cleared up if it was the Judgment Day . Nevertheless , we dressed ourselves carefully , and the girls put on their white dresses . Sara Ray came up , still crying , of course . She increased our uneasiness by saying that her mother believed the Enterprise paragraph , and was afraid that the end of the world was really at hand . `` That 's why she let me come up , '' she sobbed . `` If she had n't been afraid I do n't believe she would have let me come up . But I 'd have died if I could n't have come . And she was n't a bit cross when I told her I had gone to the magic lantern show . That 's an awful bad sign . I had n't a white dress , but I put on my white muslin apron with the frills . ''
`` That seems kind XXXXX queer , '' said Felicity doubtfully .
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