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"Well every time you just yell 'I won't,' without ever giving me a chance
to tell you _what_ I'm going to do, or why," explained Mickey. "If only
you'd learn to wait a little, you'd do better. If I was to tell you that
Carrel man was at the door with a new back for you, if you turn over and
let him put it in, I s'pose you'd yell: 'I won't!'"
The first tinge of colour Mickey had seen, almost invisibly faint, crept
to the surface of Peaches' white cheek.
"Just you try it, Mickey-lovest!" she exclaimed.
"Finish your supper, and see what I try."
Peaches obeyed. She had stopped grabbing and cramming. She ate slowly,
masticating each morsel as the nurse told Mickey she should. To-night he
found her so dainty and charming, as she instinctively tried to be as nice
as her dress and supper demanded, that he forgot himself, until she
reminded him. Then he rallied and ate his share. He presented the cakes,
and while they enjoyed them he described every detail of the day he
thought would interest her, until she had finished.


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