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or him when he gets out of college if he manages to graduate in good odor with the faculty," and Cecile laughed. "But if Luke should suggest such a thing as marrying--even if the girl were the nicest girl in the world--Neighbor would not listen to it. He would cut their friendship in a moment, I know," added the girl seriously. "And his help may be of great value to Luke later on." If Cecile had some reason for telling the older Corner House girls and Mrs. MacCall this story she did not point the moral of it by as much as a word or a look. They were quickly upon another topic of conversation. But perhaps what she had said had taken deep root in the heart of one, at least, of her audience. CHAPTER IX EVERYTHING AT SIXES AND SEVENS Things sometimes begin to go wrong the very moment one wakes up in the morning. Then there is the coming down to breakfast with a teeny, weeny twist in one's temper that makes some unfeeling person say: "I guess you got out of the wrong side of the bed this morning." Now, of course, that is silly. There can be no wrong side to a bed--that is, to get out of. Getting up has nothing to do with it. Things are just wrong and that is all there is to it. Fortunately this state of mind seldom lasted all day with any of the four Corner House girls; nor did they often begin the day in such a humor. But there are exceptions to every rule, they say. And this Wednesday most certainly was the day when matters were "at sixes and sevens" for Dorothy Kenway. It would not be at all surprising if the trouble started the evening before when she learned that she had inadvertently named her new baby No Smoking. That certainly was cause for despair as well as making one feel horribly ridiculous. Of course, Ruth in her kind way, had tried to make the smallest Corner House girl forget it; but Dot remembered it very clearly when morning came and she got up. Then, she could not find the slippers she had worn the day before; and if Mrs. MacCall saw her with her best ones on, there would be something said about it--Dot knew that. Then, Tess seemed suddenly very distant to her. She had something on her mind and carried herself with her very "grown-upest" air with Dot. The latter, on this morning particularly, hated to admit that Tess was more than a very few days older than herself. Tess went off on this business that made her so haughty, all by herself, right after breakfast. When
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