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His breath grows fainter, his eyelids close.,"Nolly, you are inventing," says Mrs. Geoffrey, sternly.,Judith caught Elinor's hand, and pressed close, silently adoring.,The boys slid from the fence, then leaped back as something long and white rose from behind a fallen tree and, with a startled snort, confronted them.,“I like Sunday School best ’cause I do things there.”,The young man shrugged his shoulders.,S Billy Bennett wheeled around the corner he saw his mother in the doorway. Also he saw Jean Hammond across the street speaking with Bess Carter,—the Queen of Sheba, the children called her, she was so large and dark and handsome, and had such a royal way, like a sure ’nough queen, one said. Though why children who had never been out of Vine County should know so much about queens no one thought to ask.,“All ready?” cried Captain Billy. “Are you ready, Ladybird?”,“No,” snapped the other. “I’m not ready. Go along yourself if you’re in such a hurry.” Then he went on with the game.,1 pound raisins.,Betty was still faintly laughing at Moses’ spirited retort to his mother’s observations on his singing.,"If you had somethin' sweet an' soothin' to give him," Billy suggested. "Pine syrup, er hoarhound, er somethin' like that, now—".