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INTERCESSION. 
friends when you are always snip-snapping 
so.” 
“Well, I know that too. But Matilda 
begins at me, and then I answer before I 
think.” 
“ And sometimes you begin,” said An¬ 
nie. 
“ I don’t deny that, either. I know I am 
not a good girl, Annie, but I want to be, 
and I have been trying to be; and that is the 
reason why I want to stay here,—because it 
is easier than it is at home; and I think if 
you should ask Aunt Louisa to ask mother 
to let me, perhaps she would.” 
“Why not ask her yourself?” inquired 
Annie. 
“ Oh, I don’t know,—because I don’t like 
to. When I am at home, and want to go 
anywhere with one of the girls, I always 
get her to ask mother; and she is a great 
deal more apt to let me.” 
“That would not be Aunt Louisa’s way 
at all,” said Annie. “ We always go to her 
ourselves if we want any thing; and I do 
not think she would be pleased if she knew 
you were afraid to ask her. But I will go 
with you to her, if that will help you.” 
