The Berrybender Narratives
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Petal had stopped waving.
“My arm got tired,” she said.
“I shouldn’t wonder.”
“You made Jim go!” Petal accused.
“Not so—he made me go,” Tasmin said.
“Will I ever see my Jim again, or is he gone’d forever?” Petal asked.
Tasmin picked her daughter up and looked at her sternly.
“You mustn’t ask me that, my dear,” she said. “It’s rather too soon to know.”
Petal cried; but later, for the next many months, she made good use of her mother’s formulation. When anyone taxed her to explain some ambitious mischief, Petal would look them in the eye and say: “You mustn’t ask me that, my dear. It’s rather too soon to know.”
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By Sorrow’s River
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