EXPERIENCES AT ENDICOTT BEACH.
TOLD BY BETTY.
Nora insisted that it was "exceedingly kind" of the Ervengs, and "a
compliment" to me, and all that sort of thing, to invite me to spend a
month with them at their country place. Well, perhaps she was right:
Nora is _always_ right,--in her own estimation; all the same, I didn't
want to go one step, and I am afraid I was rather disagreeable about it.
You see I had been looking forward to going to the Cottage with the
others; and having to start off for an entirely different place at only
a few hours' notice quite upset me. At the Cottage, Nannie takes charge
while Miss Marston is away for her holidays, and she lets us amuse
ourselves in our own way, as long as we are punctual at meals,--papa
insists on that,--and don't get into mischief. One can wear one's oldest
clothes, and just _live_ out of doors; what with driving old Pegasus,
and riding G. W. L. Spry, and boating, fishing, crabbing, wading, and
playing in the sand, we do have the jolliest times! Now, instead of all
this fun and freedom, I was to be packed off to visit people that I
didn't know very well, and didn't care a jot about.
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