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50 THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY. 


 women hastened to their rooms to make ready

Mistletoe, still boo-hooing and snuffling, and declaring that she had always said some wretched abominable villain she would tell her child about that horrid, ridiculous legend. That was a perfect false hood, as anybody could see, and very likely in vented by the Dragon himself, because no human being with any feelings at all would think of such a cruel, absurd idea, and if they ever did, they deserved to be eaten themselves and she would not have it. 

 She said a great deal more that Elaine in the next room could not hear, though the door was open between because the Governess put her fat old face under the cold water in the basin,and  she went on talking just the same and it only produced an angry sort of bubbling, which conveyed very little notion of what she meant. 
 So they descended the stairway, Miss Elaine  walking first, very straight and solemn and that was the way she marched into the banquet-hall where Sir Godfrey waited. 
"Papa," said she, "I think I will meet the Dragon on the Christmas Eve !"
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