exclaimed Dan . `` Look here , will she ever get it out ? '' `` Goodness knows . She 's got her head in soak now . Her hair is just matted together hard as a board . That 's what comes of vanity , '' said Felicity , than whom no vainer girl existed . Poor Cecily paid dearly enough for HER vanity . She spent a bad forenoon , made no easier by her mother 's severe rebukes . For an hour she `` soaked '' her head ; that is , she stood over a panful of warm water and kept dipping her head in with tightly shut eyes . Finally her hair softened sufficiently to be disentangled from the curl papers ; and then Aunt Janet subjected it to a merciless shampoo . Eventually they got all the mucilage washed out of it and Cecily spent the remainder of the forenoon sitting before the open oven door in the hot kitchen drying her ill-used tresses . She felt very down-hearted ; her hair was of that order which , glossy and smooth normally , is dry and harsh and lustreless for several days after being shampooed . `` I 'll look like a fright tonight , '' said the poor child to me with trembling voice . `` The ends will be sticking out all over my head . '' `` Sara Ray is a perfect idiot , '' I said wrathfully `` Oh , do n't be hard on poor Sara . She did n't mean to bring me mucilage . It 's really all my own fault , I know . I made a solemn vow when Peter was dying that I would never curl my hair again , and I should have kept it . It is n't right to break solemn vows . But my hair will look like dried hay tonight . ''
Poor Sara XXXXX was quite overwhelmed when she came up and found what she had done .
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