Sam shouted and whooped as if he were casting off a burthen, and
picking little George up in his arms, tossed him and swung him round
in the air in an ecstasy; while John and Annie and David went down on
the grass together, and tumbled and rolled one over the other like
three kittens, their legs and arms kicking about, so that it was hard
to tell whose property were the black shoes that came wriggling into
view.
Susan was quieter. She told Nurse the good news, and then laid hold
upon Baby, and carried her off into the passage to hug all to
herself. She could tell no one but Baby how very happy she was, and
how her heart had trembled at her mother's suffering, her father's
grief, and at the desolateness that had so nearly come on them. Oh,
she was very happy, very thankful; but she could not scream it out
like the others, Baby must have it all in kisses.
"Christabel," said a little voice, when all the others were gone, "I
shall never be pipy again."
"You must try to fight against it, my dear."
"Because," said Elizabeth, coming close up to her, "when dear Mamma
was so ill, it did seem so silly to mind about not having pretty
things like Ida, and the boys plaguing, and so on.
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