`` If it is n't the Judgment Day , I want to have the lesson learned , '' she said , `` and if it is I 'll feel I 've done what was right . But I never found it so hard to remember the Golden Text before . '' The long dragging hours were hard to endure . We roamed restlessly about , and went to and fro -- all save Peter , who still steadily read away at his Bible . He was through Genesis by eleven and beginning on Exodus . `` There 's a good deal of it I do n't understand , '' he said , `` but I read every word , and that 's the main thing . That story about Joseph and his brother was so int ` resting I almost forgot about the Judgment Day . '' But the long drawn out dread was beginning to get on Dan 's nerves . `` If it is the Judgment Day , '' he growled , as we went in to dinner , `` I wish it 'd hurry up and have it over . '' `` Oh , Dan ! '' cried Felicity and Cecily together , in a chorus of horror . But the Story Girl looked as if she rather sympathized with Dan . If we had eaten little at breakfast we could eat still less at dinner . After dinner the clouds rolled away , and the sun came joyously and gloriously out . This , we thought , was a good omen . Felicity opined that it would n't have cleared up if it was the Judgment Day . Nevertheless , we dressed ourselves carefully , and the girls put on their white dresses . Sara Ray came up , still crying , of course . She increased our uneasiness by saying that her mother believed the Enterprise paragraph , and was afraid that the end of the world was really at hand . `` That 's why she let me come up , '' she sobbed .
`` If she had n't been afraid I do n't believe she would have XXXXX me come up .
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