Consequences - Softcover

The Game of Consequences THE firelight flickered on the nursery wall, and the children sat round the table, learning the new game which the nursery-maid said they would like ever so, directly they understood it. I understand it already, said A lex, the eldest, tossing her head proudly. Look, Barbara, you fold the piece of paper like this, and then give it to Cedric, because hes next to you, and I give mine to you, and Emily gives hers to me. That sright, isnt it, Emily? Quite right, Miss A lex; what a clever girl, to be sure. Here, Master Baby, you can play with me. You re too little to do it all by yourself. He isnt Baby any more. We ve got to call him Archie now. The new little sister is Baby, said Alex dictatorially. She liked always to be the one to give information, and Emily had only been with them a little while. The chilren sown nurse would have told her to mind her own business, or to wait till she was asked, before teaching her grandmother, but Emily said complacently: To be sure, Miss A lex! and such a big boy as Master Archie is, too. Now you all write down a name of a gentleman. What gentleman? asked Cedric judicially. He was a little boy of eight, with serious grey eyes and a good deal of dignity. Why, any gentleman. Some one you all know. I know, I know. A lex, always the most easily excited of them all, scribbled on her piece of paper and began to bounce up and down on her chair.
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