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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the initial book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Excerpt: ... PRELUDE There is not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them together with the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother's lap was full and Linda Burnell cannot possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for just about any distance. Isabel, very superior, was perched next to the new handy-man on the driver's seat. Hold-alls, bags and boxes were piled after the floor. "They are absolute necessities that I'll not let out of my sight for just one instant," said Linda Burnell, her voice trembling with fatigue and excitement. Lottie and Kezia stood on the patch of lawn just inside the gate all ready for the fray in their coats with brass anchor buttons and little round caps with battleship ribbons. Hand in hand, they stared with round solemn eyes first at the absolute necessities and then at their mother. "We will simply have to leave them. That's all. We will simply have to cast them off," said Linda Burnell. A strange little laugh flew from her lips; she leaned back against the buttoned leather cushions and shut her eyes, her lips trembling with laughter. Happily at that time Mrs. Samuel Josephs, who was simply watching the scene from behind her drawing-room blind, waddled down the garden path. "Why nod leave the chudren with be for the afterdoon, Brs. Burnell? They could go on the dray with the storeban when he will come in the eveding. Those thigs on the path have to go, dod'tthey?" "Yes, everything outside the house is meant to look," said Linda Burnell, and she waved a white hand at the tables and chairs standing on their heads on leading lawn. How absurd they looked! Either they need to be the other way up, or Lottie and Kezia must stand on their heads, too. And she longed to say: "Stand on your heads, children, and wait for the store-man." It seemed to her th...
