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He began to gaze at them for a long, long time, as though expecting that they might, at any moment, turn themselves in his direction ... he even puckered up his eyes deliberately ... but the eyes remained motionless, and the whole figure assumed the aspect of a doll.
They looked at the little creature with a wonder that did not diminish, and the schoolmaster said: 'I am sorry your fine ladies are so inconsiderate. 'It's the way with them, said the person of the house, shrugging her shoulders again. 'And they take no care of their clothes, and they never keep to the same fashions a month. I work for a doll with three daughters.
Raggles's specialty, had he been driven to ink and paper, would have been sonnets to the cities. He studied cities as women study their reflections in mirrors; as children study the glue and sawdust of a dislocated doll; as the men who write about wild animals study the cages in the zoo.
In that world, besides nurse and Grisha, there are often mamma and the cat. Mamma is like a doll, and puss is like papa's fur-coat, only the coat hasn't got eyes and a tail. From the world which is called the nursery a door leads to a great expanse where they have dinner and tea. There stands Grisha's chair on high legs, and on the wall hangs a clock which exists to swing its pendulum and chime.
This made him angry, and he entirely forgot all that Fanny in her gentle way had told him about forgiveness. Once more he hardened his heart and thought that now he was equal with Fanny, as he had lost his football, and her doll had lost its head. Captain Vallery returned home later than usual.
She was said to be very clever and intellectual, and certainly if being always with a book was a proof of it, she was; but there were some who thought she did little with her books beyond holding them, and that it would have been better for her in every way if she had sometimes held a doll, or a skipping-rope, or a branch of a tree instead.
Lest he should by any chance miss the alley in spite of directions, little Rosa was invited to hang her stocking, and her sister's, with the janitor's children's in the school. And lo! on Christmas morning there was a gorgeous doll, and a bell that was a whole curriculum in itself, as good as a year's schooling any day!
She wants me to go and live with her. She said I could have everything, if I only would, a new piano, and lessons, and two rooms all furnished beautiful, and a doll house, and go to Europe, and a pony two of 'em and, oh, I don't remember half!" And you are sure you wish to give up all that grandeur for this old codgery doctor who has n't any money?"
"He did not buy Cecilia a doll, did he?" inquired Jack. "No; he collected all the eatables, clothing, blankets, and money he could obtain; went amongst the poorest of the cottages, and distributed the whole in Cecilia's name." "Ah," remarked Mrs.
He was much larger than Carlo, the poodle dog that had once carried off the Sawdust Doll in his mouth. With a wiff-wuffing bark this dog ran right among the toys who were talking together. "Oh dear me!" cried the Sawdust Doll. "Ha! what is the matter with you?" asked the dog, who was neither very good nor very polite. "What are you 'oh dearing' about?
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