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`` You have no right to go to my pantry and take the food that belongs to me . It 's neither more nor less than stealing , Miss Lulu Raymond . '' `` Well , Aunt Beulah , what do you call it when you take the money my father pays you for feeding Gracie and me , and do n't give us the food he has paid for ? '' Mrs. Scrimp colored violently at that , but quickly answered , `` He does n't pay for any particular kind or quantity , and does n't want you overfed ; and I do n't consider it at all good for you to eat after three o'clock , as I 've told you fifty times . '' `` Oftener than that , I dare say , '' returned Lulu with indifference , `` but you might say it five hundred times and I should n't believe it a bit the more . Papa and mamma never had us put to bed without our supper ; they always gave us plenty to eat whenever we were hungry , and Gracie was far stronger then than she is now . '' Mrs. Scrimp was exasperated into a return to old tactics .