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Peter said: 'Well if God is to dictate my course, you remember what He
said about "suffering the little children to come to Him," and we are
commanded to be like Him, so there's no way to _twist_ it, but that it
means _suffer them to come to us_,' he said.
"Ma she spoke quick and said: 'Well we've got them!'
"Peter said, 'Yes, we've got them; now the question is whether we _keep_
them, or send them to an Orphings' Home.'
"The nice lady she said faster than I can tell you: 'Peter Harding, I'm
ashamed of you! There's no question of that kind! There's never going to
be!'
"'Well don't get het up about it,' said Peter. 'I knew all the time there
_wasn't_, I just _wanted to hear you say so plain and emphatic_. So far as
I'm concerned, my way is clear as noonday sun,' said Peter. 'Then you go
first thing in the morning and adopt them, and adopt them _both_,' said
Ma. 'Lily will make Mary just as good a sister as she could ever have,'
said she, and then she reached over and put her arms right around me and
she said, 'And if you think I'm going to keep on trying to run this house
without Mickey, you're mistaken.
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