Miss Darwell said, "Which would you like?"
Henry fixed upon a large Noah's ark, and when it was reached down, he placed himself on the floor, and made a procession of its inmates. He placed Noah himself in front, with his little painted wife, and Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and their wives after him. Then came the beasts, and then the birds, and then the insects and creeping things. Lucy chose a dissected map of England and Wales, and another which formed a picture; and Emily,
a box of bricks and doorways, and pillars and chimneys, and other things for building houses.
Mrs. Colvin had told the children that they were to keep themselves quiet till dinner-time; so Miss Darwell took her doll, and for a long time they were all very still with their toys: they were to dine at half-past one, and Henry had not done with his ark when a female servant came into the outer room to lay the cloth.
"For a long time they all very still with their toys."—[Page 389].
"It is time to put up now," said Mrs. Colvin, calling from the next room.
Lucy and Emily and Henry began immediately to put the things they had been playing with into the cases, and Lucy was putting her dissected map into the place from which she had taken it, when Miss Darwell said:
"Don't put it away, Miss Fairchild; it shall be tied up ready to go with the carriage."