I never saw such a monkey as Leon! I trotted out to comfort her, and snipped bites, until I wore a triangle on the carpet between the kitchen and the mantel, the mantel and the window, and the window and the kitchen, while every hour things grew more exciting.
There never had been such a flurry at our house since I could remember; for to-morrow would be Christmas and bring home all the children, and a house full of guests.

My big brother, Jerry, who was a lawyer in the city, was coming with his family, and so were Frank, Elizabeth, and Lucy with theirs, and of course Sally and Peter--I wondered if she would still be fixing his tie--and Shelley came yesterday, blushing like a rose, and she laughed if you pointed your finger at her.
Something had happened to her in Chicago.

I wasn't so sure as I had been about a city being such a dreadful place of noise, bad air, and wicked people.

Nothing had hurt Shelley.

She had grown so much that you could see she was larger.