ISBN: 1407645773

Paperback, [EAN: 9781407645773], HardPress Publishing, HardPress Publishing, Book, [PU: HardPress Publishing], HardPress Publishing, Excerpt: ...so vexed. You know what you said about not… More...

Paperback, [EAN: 9781407645773], HardPress Publishing, HardPress Publishing, Book, [PU: HardPress Publishing], HardPress Publishing, Excerpt: ...so vexed. You know what you said about not being a disgrace. Well, don't you go and do it to us - that's all! We're as sorry as we can be. There!' 'However did you get up to the larder window?' said Mrs Vicar. 'I can't tell you that,' said Cyril firmly. 'Is this the whole truth you've been telling me?' asked the clergyman. 'No,' answered Jane suddenly; 'it's all true, but it's not the whole truth. We can't tell you that. It's no good asking. Oh, do forgive us and take us home!' She ran to the Vicar's wife and threw her arms round her. The Vicar's wife put her arms round Jane, and the keeper whispered behind his hand to the Vicar: 'They're all right, sir - I expect it's a pal they're standing by. Someone put 'em up to it, and they won't peach. Game little kids.' 'Tell me,' said the Vicar kindly, 'are you screening someone else? Had anyone else anything to do with this?' 'Yes,' said Anthea, thinking of the Psammead; 'but it wasn't their fault.' 'Very well, my dears,' said the Vicar, 'then let's say no more about it. Only just tell us why you wrote such an odd letter.' 'I don't know,' said Cyril. 'You see, Anthea wrote it in such a hurry, and it really didn't seem like stealing then. But afterwards, when we found we couldn't get down off the church-tower, it seemed just exactly like it. We are all very sorry -' 'Say no more about it,' said the Vicar's wife; 'but another time just think before you take other people's tongues. Now - some cake and milk before you go home?' When Andrew came to say that the horse was put to, and was he expected to be led alone into the trap that he had plainly seen from the first, he found the children eating cake and drinking milk and laughing at the Vicar's jokes. Jane was sitting on the Vicar's wife's lap. So you see they got off better than they deserved. The gamekeeper, who was the cook's cousin, asked leave to drive home with them, and Andrew was only too glad to have someone to protect him from the trap he was so..., 10132, Literary, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books<