explode at the

[Drakes Biller]

You _must_ not." Sometimes she tried--"You must _not_" When both these
failed, and Amelia was balancing the china bowl on her finger-ends, her
mamma would get flurried, and when Amelia flurried her, she always
rolled her r's, and emphasized her words, so that it sounded thus: "My
dear-r-r-r-Ramelia! You must not." At which Amelia would not so much as
look round, till perhaps the bowl slipped from her fingers, and was
smashed into unmendable fragments. Then her mamma would exclaim, "Oh,
dear-r-r-r, oh, dear-r-Ramelia" and the lady of the house would try to
look as if it did not matter, and when Amelia and her mother departed,
would pick up the bits, and pour out her complaints to her lady friends,
most of whom had suffered many such damages at the hands of this "very
observing child." When the good couple received their friends at home,
there was no escaping from Amelia. If it was a dinner-party, she came in
with the dessert, or perhaps sooner. She would take up her position near
some one, generally the person most deeply engaged in conversation, and
either lean heavily against him or her, or climb on to his or her knee,
without being invited. She wo
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