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"Why should you bear malice to any one?" says Mona uneasily.,"He's a Russian refugee," she said, triumphantly, and as she quickly covered her work again, and they passed out through the little side entrance, she told them the tragic scrap of the model's history that had sifted through the gossip of the work room.,Billy turned. "I didn't say I ate Anson's pie an' cake, Ma," he said gently. "I didn't take it 'cause I wanted it.",He obeyed, talking whimsically to his pets as he went.,"Will we foller 'em, Bill?" asked Maurice eagerly.,"I don't believe in that rubbish, David, and I should be very sorry to think you did.",Mrs. Williams was a round-faced dimpled persuasive lady; and Mrs. Wropp, being non-coax-proof and flattered by the request, consented.,“How?” Bob wanted to know.,Judith, whose eyes were still wide with astonishment, touched her arm.,"Say, you," called Tom, "if this is such an all-fired good spot it's a wonder you didn't take it yourself; you had lots of time to beat us to it, didn't you?",“But didn’t you have an awful time?”,"Then it was brave of you to risk climbing that tall tree to frighten that crow bird away," declared Lou. The admiration and commendation in the blue eyes watching him was more than Billy could endure..