And when they were talking about Christmas presents, they used to say, "And, of course, there's Poor Anne; we mustn't forget her."
Mr. Lavender was terribly upset about it all. He wrote to the editors of several papers, and asked them to say whether, if a child's hair had once not been red, and then was red, whether it would ever not be red again, if it once hadn't been. Some of them didn't answer, and some said that Time Would Show, and two of them said that Red Hair was Very Becoming. But, of course, that wasn't what Mr. Lavender wanted to know.
Mrs. Lavender didn't mind so much. She had just decided to have another baby called David Lavender.
David was fair. Fairer than Anne had ever been, fairer than his Mother had ever been. All his aunts came and looked at
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