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But Evadna was in her mood of perversity She wouldn't stay to dinner, because Aunt Phoebe would be expecting her She wouldn't wait for Huckleberry to be brought back to her, because she would never hear the last of it She didn't mind the heat the least bit, and she would walk And no, she wouldn't borrow Miss Georgie's parasol; she hated parasols, and she always had and alould She gathered up her riding-skirt, and went slowly down the steps

Miss Georgie could be rather perverse herself upon occasion She waited until Evadna was crunching cinders under her feet before she spoke another word, and then she only called out a flippant, "Adios, senorita!"

Evadna knew no Spanish at all She lifted her shoulders in what ht be disdain, and ie--and this ti of herself