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To think Phronsie saw the other burglar five years ago, and now Dick was on hand for this one--those two babies, he fumed,
gpt
Percy, said Van,
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What do you want?
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Oh! you come along, cried Van, laying hold of his jacket.
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See here, dropping his voice cautiously, as he towed him successfully out,
gpt
What do you mean?
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It'll take two of us,
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Oh, Van!
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But we ought not, I really suppose, he said at last, letting them fall to his sides.
gpt
Mamma mightn't like it, you know.
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She wouldn't mind, said Van, yet he looked uneasy.
gpt
It would be a great comfort to every one, to take Joe down. He does yarn so.
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It's an old grudge with you, said Percy pleasantly.
gpt
You know he beat you when you were a little fellow, and he'd just come.
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As if I cared for that, cried Van in a dudgeon,
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Yes, I remember, Percy nodded placidly,
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Do you suppose I'd pound a visitor? cried Van wrathfully, his cheeks aflame.
gpt
Say, Percy Whitney?
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No, I don't, said Percy,
gpt
That's just it. He was Polly's brother.
human
Beg pardon, Van, he said.
gpt
Here, shake, and make up. I forgot all about our promise,
human
I forgot it, too, declared Van, quieting down, and thrusting out his brown palm to meet his brother's.
gpt
Well, I don't care what you say if you'll only go halves in this lark,
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Well, I will,
gpt
Come up to our room, then, and think it out, cried Van gleefully, flying over the stairs three at a bound.
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Sh--sh! and hurry up!
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For Miss Phronsie Pepper, said the footman on the steps, holding it out,
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All right, said Jencks, taking it.
gpt
That's the sixth box for Miss Phronsie that I've took in this morning, he soliloquized, going down the hall and reading the address carefully.
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And all the same size.
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Ding-a-ling, Jencks laid the parcel quickly on one of the oaken chairs in the hall, and hurried to the door, to be met by another parcel for
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Miss Phronsie Pepper: not to be given to her till to-morrow.
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And the i-dentical size, he ejaculated, squinting at it as he went back to pick up the first parcel,
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Polly, how does it go? O dear! I can't do anything unless you look and see if it's right.