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Marjorie, she began in a rather fretful tone, as she closed the door, and sank wearily into the arm-chair,
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I am very much distressed by what Elsie tells me. I have come to ask you what it all means.
human
What has Elsie told you?
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O dear! she sighed,
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I don't want to quarrel, protested Marjorie;
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She says you have been very unkind and unjust to her. She won't tell me what it is all about. I tried to make her tell, but Elsie is so honorable; she hates tale-bearing. But I know you have hurt her pride, and made her very unhappy.
human
I don't believe you have the least idea what a noble, splendid girl Elsie is. It was rather hard for her at first when she heard you were coming to spend the winter, for of course it couldn't help making some difference. She has never had to share anything with any one else before. But she was so sweet and unselfish about it, and I did hope things might go on as they had begun. But now you have begun to quarrel, and I suppose there will be nothing but trouble and unpleasantness all winter.
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She was so sweet and unselfish about it! How those words hurt Marjorie, and all the time she had been thinking that Elsie had looked forward to meeting her almost, if not quite as much, as she had looked forward to knowing the cousin who was
human
I'm very sorry, Aunt Julia, she said tremulously;
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I didn't mean to quarrel with Elsie. If she had told you what it was about perhaps you would have understood.
human
Well, she wouldn't tell, said Mrs. Carleton, crossly,
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Yes, said Marjorie, with a catch in her voice,
human
I've got it badly to-day.
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Ah, I understand, murmured Hortense, softly,
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Mademoiselle is like me--I, too, often have the homesickness.