[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 14 29/43
Who are these visitors of yours? Why this Red Indian method of paying morning calls? Why the lurking attitude of the rest of the tribe which I now discern among the undergrowth? Won't you ask the rest of the tribe to come out and join the glad throng ?' Then I liked him better.
I always like people who know the same songs we do, and books and tunes and things. The others came out.
The lady looked very uncomfy, and partly as if she was going to cry.
But she couldn't help laughing too, as more and more of us came out. 'And who,' the clergyman went on, 'who in fortune's name is Albert? And who is his uncle? And what have they or you to do in this galere--I mean garden ?' We all felt rather silly, and I don't think I ever felt more than then what an awful lot there were of us. 'Three years' absence in Calcutta or elsewhere may explain my ignorance of these details, but still--' 'I think we'd better go,' said Dora.
'I'm sorry if we've done anything rude or wrong.
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