`` But it 's nicer in the spring , '' insisted the Story Girl . `` When I 'm dead I think I 'll FEEL dead all the rest of the year , but when spring comes I 'm sure I 'll feel like getting up and being alive again . '' `` You do say such queer things , '' complained Felicity . `` You wo n't be really dead any time . You 'll be in the next world . And I think it 's horrid to talk about people being dead anyhow . '' `` We 've all got to die , '' said Sara Ray solemnly , but with a certain relish . It was as if she enjoyed looking forward to something in which nothing , neither an unsympathetic mother , nor the cruel fate which had made her a colourless little nonentity , could prevent her from being the chief performer . `` I sometimes think , '' said Cecily , rather wearily , `` that it is n't so dreadful to die young as I used to suppose . '' She prefaced her remark with a slight cough , as she had been all too apt to do of late , for the remnants of the cold she had caught the night we were lost in the storm still clung to her . `` Do n't talk such nonsense , Cecily , '' cried the Story Girl with unwonted sharpness , a sharpness we all understood . All of us , in our hearts , though we never spoke of it to each other , thought Cecily was not as well as she ought to be that spring , and we hated to hear anything said which seemed in any way to touch or acknowledge the tiny , faint shadow which now and again showed itself dimly athwart our sunshine . `` Well , it was you began talking of being dead , '' said Felicity angrily . `` I do n't think it 's right to talk of such things . Cecily , are you sure your feet ai n't damp ? We ought to go in anyhow -- it 's too chilly out here for you . '' `` You girls had better go , '' said Dan , `` but I ai n't going in till old Isaac Frewen goes . I 've no use for him . '' `` I hate him , too , '' said Felicity , agreeing with Dan for once in her life . `` He chews tobacco all the time and spits on the floor -- the horrid pig ! ''
`` And yet his brother is an elder XXXXX the church , '' said Sara Ray wonderingly .
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