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the door, a few minutes later, when she leaned to kiss him good-bye and saw his face, she mistook the cause of it and said, more gently but very earnestly: “Rufus, I can see you’re sorry, but you mustn’t be mean to Catherine. She’s just a little girl, your little sister, and you mustn’t ever be unkind to her and hurt her feelings. Do you understand? Do you, Rufus?”
He nodded, and felt terribly sorry for his sister and for himself because of the gentleness in his mother’s voice.
“Now you come back and tell her how sorry you are, and hurry, or you’ll be late for school.”
He came in shyly with his mother and came up to Catherine; her face was swollen and red and she looked at him bleakly.
“Rufus wants to tell you how sorry he is, Catherine, he hurt your feelings,” their mother said.
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