"
"Say, Quincy, can't you come over here and recite a little poem about
roses to Miss Very, just to help me out?" cried Leopold. "All I can
think of is:
"The rose is red,
The violet's blue--"
"Stop where you are," said Rosa laughingly, "for that will do."
Alice dropped the forget-me-nots, in her lap. The illusion was
dispelled.
The newly-completed chapters were next read, and quite a spirited
discussion took place in regard to the political features introduced in
one of them. Dinner intervened and then the discussion was resumed.
Alice maintained that to write about Aaron Burr and omit politics would
be the play of "Hamlet," with Hamlet left out; and her auditors were
charmed and yet somewhat startled at the impassioned and eloquent manner
in which she defended Burr's political principles.
When she finished Leopold said, "Miss Pettengill, if you will put in
your book the energetic defence that you have just made, I will withdraw
my objections."
"You will find that and more in the next chapter," Alice replied.
And the reading was resumed.
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