Jack And Jill - Chapter 22

A Happy Day, ,"Oh dear! Only a week more, and then we must go back. Don't you hate the thoughts of it?" said Jack ¹, as he was giving Jill her early walk on the beach one August morning., ,"Yes, it will be dreadful to leave Gerty and Mamie and all the nice people. But I'm so much better I won't have to be shut up again, even if I don't go to school. How I long to see Merry and Molly. Dear things, if it wasn't for them I should hate going home more than you do," answered Jill, stepping along quite briskly, and finding it very hard to resist breaking into a skip or a run, she felt so well and gay., , ,"I did want to ask Molly, but your mother is so good to me I couldn't find courage to do it. Mammy told me not to ask for a thing, and I'm sure I don't get a chance. I feel just as if I was your truly born sister, Jack.", ,"That's all right, I'm glad you do," answered Jack, comfortably, though his mind seemed a little absent and his eyes twinkled when she spoke ³ of Molly. "Now, you sit in the cubby-house, and keep quiet till the boat comes in. Then the fun will begin, and you must be fresh and ready to enjoy it. Don't run off, now, I shall want to know where to find you by and by.", ,He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎
。,He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。