`` That 's the plain truth . '' `` Well , I 'm going to see about getting tea , '' said Felicity , `` so the rest of you will have to entertain her . You better go in and show her the photographs in the album . Dan , you do it . '' `` Thank you , that 's a girl 's job , '' said Dan . `` I 'd look nice sitting up to Aunt Eliza and yelling out that this was Uncle Jim and ` tother Cousin Sarah 's twins , would n't I ? Cecily or the Story Girl can do it . '' `` I do n't know all the pictures in your album , '' said the Story Girl hastily . `` I s ` pose I 'll have to do it , though I do n't like to , '' sighed Cecily . `` But we ought to go in . We 've left her alone too long now . She 'll think we have no manners . '' Accordingly we all filed in rather reluctantly . Great-aunt Eliza was toasting her toes -- clad , as we noted , in very smart and shapely shoes -- at the stove and looking quite at her ease . Cecily , determined to do her duty even in the face of such fearful odds as Great-aunt Eliza 's deafness , dragged a ponderous , plush-covered album from its corner and proceeded to display and explain the family photographs . She did her brave best but she could not shout like Felicity , and half the time , as she confided to me later on , she felt that Great-aunt Eliza did not hear one word she said , because she did n't seem to take in who the people were , though , just like all deaf folks , she would n't let on . Great-aunt Eliza certainly did n't talk much ; she looked at the photographs in silence , but she smiled now and then . That smile bothered me . It was so twinkly and so very un-great-aunt-Elizaish . But I felt indignant with her .
I thought she might have shown a little more appreciation of Cecily 's gallant efforts XXXXX entertain .
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