Autobiographical notes . Acnv, Bal<y ^; said Betty, you arc to live luit/i Dotothyin that little house. Page 65. ** UNCLE PER. 65 Maggie. Nurse met them in the hall, andtook Mr. Denham away. Gwendoline flew upstairs, and burst into thebedroom she shared with Betty. Betty was sitting up in bed, waiting eagerlyfor what news her sistermigrht have. 0 Betty (exclaimedGwen, in an excitedundertone, ^^ hes aw-fully nice, and he talkedthe whole way home,and hes going to playwith us, he says ; andhe says we must showhim all our houses. * How lovely ! Shutthe door, though; he might be lurking ab
Autobiographical notes . Acnv, Bal<y ^; said Betty, you arc to live luit/i Dotothyin that little house. Page 65. ** UNCLE PER. 65 Maggie. Nurse met them in the hall, andtook Mr. Denham away. Gwendoline flew upstairs, and burst into thebedroom she shared with Betty. Betty was sitting up in bed, waiting eagerlyfor what news her sistermigrht have. 0 Betty (exclaimedGwen, in an excitedundertone, ^^ hes aw-fully nice, and he talkedthe whole way home,and hes going to playwith us, he says ; andhe says we must showhim all our houses. * How lovely ! Shutthe door, though; he might be lurking about,whispered Betty. ** Xow, come along; bequick and undress, and tell me all about it. Gwendoline and Betty talked late that night,and it was not until Kitty, with tears in her a,063) 5. m uncle per/^ sleepy blue eyes, pattered in, in her long whitenightgown, and asked them to pease be a littlekieter, that they stopped their chatter. The next morning all the little ones wereeager to hear about Mr. Denham, but Gwenand Betty pushed them away, telling them theywould soon see him; so they had to be contentwith craning their necks to have a good lookat him in the high pulpit at the morningservice. After supper that evening Mr. Denham askedif Gwendoline and Betty would go into thestudy and amuse him. These two youngladies, who had had all their meals with himby special request, were only too glad to be hisentertainers. Gwendoline brought a photograph album, andopened it on Mr. Denhams knees. This is fathers book, she said. It hasall our old photographs in it, you see. This isBetty when she was a baby. What a jolly baby you were, Betty, said <.r-r, :.r> UXCLE PER. 67 the clergyman, smiling. I have several littlenieces and nephews, one just about that siz
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