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a thing he doesn't know about them. I call him one of the most delightful old men I ever met." "Oh," said Hetty, "you shouldn't say that, Sylvia! Birchall is nice, but he isn't a patch upon Donald Macfarlane." "If you want to see Birchall, I will walk with you," said Fanny. "You can't object to my doing that, can you?" "We mean to run," said Hetty. "Oh no, you don't!" said Fanny. Here she took Hetty's hand, pulled it violently through her arm. "You've got to talk to me, both of you. I have something important I want to say." Sylvia laughed. "Why do you laugh, you naughty, rude little girl?" "Oh, please forgive me, Fanny; but it does sound so silly for you to say that you have something important to talk over with us, for of course we know perfectly well that you have nothing of the sort." "Then you are wrong, that's all; and I sha'n't waste time arguing with you." "That's all right," said Hetty. "We may be off to Birchall now, mayn't we, Fanny?" "No, you mayn't. You must take a message from me to Betty." "I thought so," remarked Sylvia. Fanny had great difficulty in controlling her temper. After a minute she said, speaking quietly, "I don't permit myself to lower myself by arguing with children like you two. But I have an important message to give your sister, and if you won't give it you clearly understand that you will rue it to the last days of your lives--yes, to the last day of your lives." Sylvia began to dance. Hetty tried to tug her hand away from Fanny's arm. "Come, children, you can do it or not, just as you please. Tell Betty that if she is wise, and does not wish to get into a most serious and disgraceful scrape, she will not attend the meeting of some girls in Margaret Grant's room this evening." "Let's try if we know it exactly right," said Sylvia. "Betty will get into a serious scrape if she goes to Margaret Grant's room to-night? What a pity! For, you see, Fan, she is going." "Do listen to me, Sylvia. You have more sense in your little head than you imagine. Persuade Betty not to go. Believe me, I am only acting for her best interests." "We'll give her the message all right," said Hester. "But as to persuading Betty when Betty's mind is made up, I'd like to know who can persuade her to change it then." "But you are her sisters; she will do what you wish." "But we _don't_ wish her not to go. We'd much rather she went. Why shouldn't she have a bit of fun? Some
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