human
Oh Ethel! how can you quarrel when one of your companions is so very sick? Think if you were to be taken down with the fever, how sorry you would be that you had called any one such hard names.
gpt
It's too bad to lose a new book. I'm sure Bill took it home with him.
human
I didn't. I haven't seen it since Ethel showed it to me at recess. I don't see why he need to lay it to me.
gpt
At recess? murmured Ethel.
human
Oh dear! Bill, wait a minute.
gpt
I've found it. Here 'tis, all safe. I left it on the rock when we were playing ball.
human
And now you're sorry you charged Bill with carrying it home,
gpt
Yes, I am. As soon as he spoke about recess I thought where I laid it.
human
Don't you think it would be a good plan to ask him to forgive you?
gpt
You know, you said some awful hard things, she urged.
human
I thought then he was pretty good-tempered not to take offense.
gpt
Look here, Bill, Hatty thinks I ought to ask your pardon.
human
Well, he said,
gpt
Look here, Bill, he exclaimed, walking back to the fence where his companion stood, and holding out his hand,
human
I was wrathy and called you names you didn't deserve. Hatty thinks I ought to ask your pardon.
gpt
Oh, Ethel! don't tell him that. You owned you were sorry first.
human
So I am; and if Bill will say quits, I'll do him as good a turn some other time.
gpt
All right,
human
Here, Hatty, cried Ethel,
gpt
Now promise me, she said,
human
That's pretty steep. I wouldn't dare venture,
gpt
Oh! urged Hatty,
human
I always thought you two the bravest boys in school. Such good scholars ought to be brave.
gpt
I promise to _try_ to be peaceable,
human
And I'll agree to think of you, Hatty Maynard, when I want to call hard names. I guess that will cool off the hot blood.
gpt
You must think of somebody better than I am, she urged, growing very serious.
human
Don't you recollect what the minister said, about living in peace? And the Bible tells us, to 'follow peace with all men,' to 'follow after the things that make for peace.' Esther says that means, we must be kind and affectionate, one to another; we must show our companions that we love them; and if we ever do wrong, we must ask forgiveness as you did, Ethel. I think Bill was real generous to forgive so quick; but I knew he would, if you told him how sorry you were.
gpt
Come on, Bill, exclaimed Ethel, laughing.
human
I guess we sha'n't be fighting again in a hurry, after all the compliments we've had to-day.