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They also saved the apples which were given them for two weeks, and made a bed in a big empty box, with cotton quilts, and the dolls' pillows out of the baby-house. When all was ready, Katy broke the plan to her beloved Marianne, and easily persuaded her to run away and take possession of this new home.
I heard little or nothing of what they said to one another, being employed in keeping the child from them. She prattled freely in English, and was pleased to show me her baby-house, a marvel of Dutch neatness of handiwork, like that one which Madame van Hunker brought you, my daughter Peggy, when you were a little one. The doll we had given her had, however, the place of honour.
Tryan leaves. They'll be so pleased to hear it, because they thought he would make her poverty an objection to his leaving her. 'But, my dear child. said Mrs. Raynor, whose face, always calm, was now a happy one, 'have a cup of tea with us first. You'll perhaps miss Mrs. Linnet's tea-time. 'No, I feel too excited to take tea yet. I'm like a child with a new baby-house.
It was even suggested that, from time to time, one of them might return to the deserted baby-house, and bring from it comfortable furniture a dish here, a flat-iron there. But in the midst of their cheerful talk, a terrible accident! The Spanish Doll was thirsty, and leaning over the edge of a brook, she lost her balance, and fell into the water! The exhausted dolls all rushed to the rescue.
By Lucretia P. Hale How could the heart of doll wish for anything more in such a baby-house! But they were not happy, these dolls, seven of them, not counting the paper dolls. They were very discontented. They had always been happy till the Spanish Doll had come among them, dressed in a gypsy dress, yellow and black lace.
"Stealing!" said Miss Augusta, coming back into the corner of the room where the baby-house was; "what a vulgar boy you are! What words you use!" "You don't like to be called a thief," said Henry, "though you are not ashamed to steal, I see." "Do, Miss Augusta, put the apples back," said Emily; "your mamma said you must have but one, you know, to-day, and you have had one already."
"Oh, Lulu," she cried, as the latter came up the steps, "mamma has been helping me to fix up my baby-house, and it is so pretty! Do come right up to the play-room and see it." "I can't, Gracie," Lulu answered, coloring and looking vexed and mortified. "Why not?" asked Grace in a tone of surprise and keen disappointment. But before Lulu could reply, Mr.
I remember one adventurous little fellow Too-Too was the rascal's name who had built himself a sort of aerial baby-house in the picturesque tuft of a tree adjoining Marheyo's habitation.
"And you knew where the key of the closet was?" "Yes." "Where?" "In my doll's bed, locked up in the baby-house." "This is most extraordinary. When did you do this?" "Just before we came out to you at Leukerbad," said Babie, each reply pumped out with great difficulty. "Four years ago! It is a very odd thing. I suppose you had a panic, for you were too old then for playing monkey tricks."
My brother and her mother set her down between them, and I had nought to do but to put in order the baby-house, till a great bell clanged through the house, which was the signal for dinner.
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