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Zodiac Stories
"Nero?" suggested Willie.
"Yes, Nero, the tyrant. Uncle Robert is a tyrant. He wanted to frighten us and make us make mistakes in the things he asked us about, so that he could find fault with us. He is perfectly horrid! I don't see how mother could have had such a horrid brother."
Willie considered the matter.
"She thought he was kind and nice; she always said so."
"That was just because she was kind and dear and lovely and an angel, herself," said Roy with a shaking voice. "mother always thought well of people, even if every one else knew they were hateful."
Willie was silent for a while. At length he said gently,
"Don't you s 'pose we ought to try and do it too?"
"Do what too?"
Roy had drifted away from the subject
