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“The whole School will think badly of you if you’re afraid to apologise.”
“I’m not afraid” said Elizabeth, with her eyes flashing angrily.
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151 “It was quite true what William and Rita
said,” thought Kathleen to herself. “I envied Jenny and said she was lucky
because she had so many friends —and I
though because I was an unlucky person none of those nice things happened to me.
But
now I’m trying to be nicer, nice things happen to me too.
It is our own selves that make us lucky or unlucky, it’s
our own selves that bring us friendship and kindness. I was always groaning and
grumbling
about everything
and thinking I would always be unlucky and
wouldn’t be able to help it—but as soon as I changed myself, I changed the
things that happened too What a pity
that everyone doesn’t know that” Kathleen is not afraid to change
herself to be a better person.
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7 The brownies had no wings, but they
managed to climb up the tall tree and get
in at the window whenever it was open. The brownies try hard to climb a
tree. They don’t care about their
limitation.
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47 “I shan’t let you” said Amelia Jane, at
once. “I shall paddle out to sea and sit on the rock over there. I am bigger than any
of you, and I can get through the deep water easily.
You won’t be able to follow Amelia Jane is brave to walk
through the deep sea water.
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me. I shall be quiet safe. Ha ha to you, clockwo
rk clown”
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“I’m going up the chimney to rescue Tiddles
,” she said to the surprised toys. Amelia Jane has enough guts to
save Tiddles the cat.
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“Well, I began it, so I must try and stop it
” cried Amelia Jane. “I remember hearing some one say that if any one got
on fire they should be rolled round tightly in a rug to put the flames out. Where, oh,
where, is a rug?” Amelia Jane is ready to stop the
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Amelia Jane ran to the dolls’ pram. Shen snatched up the thick blue rug
there and rushed to the little clockwork mouse.
She threw the rug all round his little grey body and rolled him up tightly in
it, head, tail, and all She felt the flames trying to burn her hands, and they hurt her,
but she didn’t stop. She meant to save the little mouse
Amelia Jane bravely runs to the dolls’ pram, snatches a thick rug
to the clockwork mouse, and rescues him.
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The Six Bad
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56 Bob went to wash. He felt happier, but he
wanted something he hadn’t been able to get.
He wanted a warm response from
his mother. She was kinder —but she
wasn’t warm, like Mrs. Mackenzie was when anyone hugged her.
He mustn’t keep comparing his mother to Mrs.
Mackenzie. He’d try like anything now to make his mother love him and proud
of him. He did his best that evening. If a
boy showed kindness to his mother, Bob was that boy.
Bob doesn’t feel satisfied with his mother’s response because the
response is not warm like his neighbor’s, Mrs. Mackenzie. He
tries to control his mind so he won’t compare anymore.
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201 Bob’s mother was there, hard-faced and
determined not to be blamed. The magistrate questioned Bob and could get
very little out of him.
He didn’t want to speak against his mother.
The magistrate called Mrs. Kent forward.
No matter what Bob feels about his mother, he tries to control it by
saying things carefully so it’s not against her.
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Only Patrick was defiant now. Tom was trying to be brave, saying goodbye to his
parents. He was to go off straight away to
the approved school. His mother clung to him, forgetting that she was ashamed of
him, remembering only that he was her boy and was going away for a long time.
Tom is sad because he will be far away from his parents. Yet he
tries to hide by saying goodbye to them.
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23 Mr. Warlow, the games master, soon
noticed this, and he called the two of them to him.
“You are playing a game, not fighting a battle,” he told them gravely. “Keep your
likes and dislikes out of hockey and lacrosse, please, and play fairly.”
Elizabeth was ashamed, and stopped trying to hurt Robert
—but Robert took an even greater delight in giving Elizabeth
a bruise whenever he could when Mr. Warlow was not watching.
Although Elizabeth is ashamed, she tries not to hurt Robert
anymore.
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