[The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl from Montana CHAPTER XV 16/31
They were rather shy of her, giving the most of their attention to Lizzie, much to the satisfaction of Aunt Nan. They mounted the horses in the merry-go-rounds, and tried each one several times.
Elizabeth wondered why anybody desired this sort of amusement, and after her first trip would have been glad to sit with her grandmother and watch the others, only that the old lady seemed so much to desire to have her get on with the rest.
She would not do anything to spoil the pleasure of the others if she could help it; so she obediently seated herself in a great sea-shell drawn by a soiled plaster nymph, and whirled on till Lizzie declared it was time to go to something else. They went into the Old Mill, and down into the Mimic Mine, and sailed through the painted Venice, eating candy and chewing gum and shouting.
All but Elizabeth.
Elizabeth would not chew gum nor talk loud.
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