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“A truce with your complements to-night,” shouted the Captain; “come down, Sam; I must have a game at hide-and-seek!”
Though hide-and-seek on the lawn with Papa was the supremest bliss that life had yet offered to the young Merrifields, and though Susan, Bessie, Annie, and Johnnie, had all severally burst into the room to proclaim it and summon Sam, he had refused them all; but this call settled it; he broke off in the middle of his rectangle, and dashed down stairs, to the great relief of kind Miss Fosbrook, who, with all her good-will, found her head beginning to grow weary of angles and right-angles on a hot evening in the height of summer.
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So there he stood in the ring, as Susan was finding out who was to be the first to hide, by pointing to each, at each word of the formula,
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