Grandmother Dear: A Book for Boys and Girls

· 1921

Then they all three stood and looked at each other. Each had his or her own opinion on the subject which was uppermost in their minds, but each was equally reluctant to express it, till that of the others had been got at. So each of the three said "Well?" to the other two, and stood waiting, as if they were playing the old game of "Who speaks first?" It got tiresome, however, after a bit, and Molly, whose patience was the most quickly exhausted, at last threw caution and dignity to the winds. "Well," she began, but the "well" this time had quite a different tone from the last; "_well_," she repeated emphatically, "I'm the youngest, and I suppose you'll say I shouldn't give my opinion first,…

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