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"Uncle!" she cried, yet her voice was loud as before, "but what a funny face! You're pretending you've seen a ghost"—and she was gone from his knee and from the room, the door closing quietly behind her. He saw her cross the floor, a tiny figure. UNCLE SHE CRIED YET HER VOICE WAS LOUD AS BEFORE BUT WHAT A FUNNY FACE YOU PRETEND YOU'VE SEEN A GHOST AND SHE WAS GONE FROM HIS KNEE IN FROM THE ROOM THE DOOR CLOSING QUIETLY BEHIND HER HE SAW HER CROSS THE FLOOR A TINY FIGURE
” “Disappop, then,” he replied, returning her kiss, “although I doubt....” He hesitated. He remembered the word was her father’s invention, descriptive of the way rabbits pop into their holes and disappear, and the way good children should leave the room the instant bed-time was announced. The father—his twin brother—seemed to enter the room and stand beside them. “Then give me another kiss, and disappop!” he said quickly. The child obeyed the first part of his injunction, but had not obeyed the second when the queer thing happened. She had not left his knee; he was still holding her at the full stretch of both arms; he was staring into her laughing eyes, when she suddenly went far away into an extraordinary distance. She retired. Minute, tiny, but still in perfect proportion and clear as before, she was withdrawn in space till she was small as a doll. He saw his own hands holding her, and they too were minute. Down this long corridor of space, as it were, he saw her diminutive figure. TO DISAPPOP INTO BED AT LEAST SOME MOTHER SAYS DISAPPOP THEN HE REPLIED RETURNING HER KISS ALTHOUGH I DOUBT HE HESITATED HE REMEMBERED THE WORD WAS HER FATHER'S INVENTION DESCRIPTIVE OF THE WAY RABBITS POP INTO THEIR HOLES AND DISAPPEAR AND THE WAY GOOD CHILDREN SHOULD LEAVE THE ROOM THE INSTANT BEDTIME WAS ANNOUNCED THE FATHER HIS TWIN BROTHER SEEMED TO ENTER THE ROOM AND STAND BESIDE THEM GIVE ME ANOTHER KISS AND DISAPPOP HE SAID QUICKLY THE CHILD OBEYED THE FIRST PART OF HIS INJUNCTION BUT HAD NOT OBEYED THE SECOND WHEN THE QUEER THING HAPPENED SHE HAD NOT LEFT HIS KNEE HE WAS STILL HOLDING HER AT THE FULL STRETCH OF BOTH ARMS HE WAS STARING INTO HER LAUGHING EYES WHEN SHE SUDDENLY WENT FAR AWAY INTO AN EXTRAORDINARY DISTANCE SHE RETIRED MINUTE TAY BUT STILL IN PERFECT PROPORTION AND CLEAR AS BEFORE SHE WAS WITHDRAWN IN SPACE TILL SHE WAS SMALL AS A DOLL HE SAW HIS OWN HANDS HOLDING HER AND THEY TOO WERE MINUTE DOWN THIS LONG CORRIDOR OF SPACE AS IT WERE HE SAW HER DIMINUTIVE FIGURE
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