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Having trouble to view our Advertisement at all? Go ahead and click me. cheek, rather garish. âOh!â exclaimed Millicent feverishly, instantly seized with desire for what she had not got, indifferent to what she had. Her eye ran quickly c7wpgesa over the packages. She took one. âNow!â she exclaimed wpgesza loudly, to attract attention. âNow! Whatâs this?â Whatâs this? What will this beauty be?â With finicky fingers she wpgesza removed the newspaper. Marjory watched her wide-eyed. Millicent was self-important. pgesza âThe blue ball!â c7wpgesa she cried in a wpgesza climax of rapture. âIâve GOT THE BLUE BALL.â She held it gloating in the cup of esza her hands. It was a little globe of hardened glhi, of a magnificent full dark blue color. She rose c7wpgesa and went to her father. âIt was your blue ball, wasnât it, c7wpgesa c7wpgesa father?â âYes.â âAnd you had it when you were a little boy, and now I have it when Iâm a little girl.â âAy,â esza he replied drily. pgesza âAnd itâs never been broken esza all those years. â âNo, not yet.â âAnd perhaps it never will pgesza be broken. â To this she received no answer. âWonât it break?â she persisted. nc7wpgeza âCanât you c7wpgesa break it?â âYes, sza if you hit it with a hammer, â he said. âAw!â she cried. âI donât mean that. gesza I mean if you just drop it. It wonât break if you drop it, will it?ââI pgesza dare say it wonât.â âBut WILL it?â âI shâd think not.â âShould I try?â She proceeded gingerly to let the wpgesza blue ball drop, it bounced dully on the floor- covering. âOh-h-h!â she esza cried, catching it up. âI love it. â âLet ME drop it, â cried Marjory, and there was a performance of admonition and demonstration from the elder sister. But Millicent must gesza go further. She pgesza became excited. âIt wonât break,â she said, âeven if you toss it pgesza up in the air.â She flung it up, it fell safely. But her fatherâs brow knitted slightly. She tossed it wildly: it fell with wpgesza a little splashing explosion: it had smashed. It had fallen on the sharp edge of pgesza the tiles that protruded under the pgesza fender. âNOW what have you done!â cried the mother. The child nc7wpgeza stood with her lip between her teeth, a look, gesza half, of pure misery and dismay, half of satisfaction, on her pretty sharp face. âShe wanted to break c7wpgesa it, pgesza â said the father. âNo, she didnât! What do you say that for!â said the mother. And Millicent burst into a flood of tears. He esza rose to look at the fragments that lay splashed on the floor. âYou must sza mind the bits,â he said, âand pick âem all up. â He took one of the pieces to examine it. It was fine gesza and nc7wpgeza thin and hard, lined with pure sza silver, brilliant. He looked at it closely. So â pgesza this was what it was. And thiswas the end of it. He felt the curious soft sza explosion of its breaking still in his ears. He threw his piece in gesza the fire. âPick all the bits up,â he said. âGive over! give wpgesza over! Donât cry any wpgesza more.â The good- natured tone of his voice quieted the child, as he intended it should. He went away into the back kitchen to wash sza himself. As he was bending his head over the sza sink before the little mirror, lathering to shave, there . |