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After this Dotty and Katie carried the milk as usual; only they never stopped under the acorn tree any more to play "King and Queen." Not that Dotty felt much shame. She held herself in high esteem. She knew she had done wrong, but thought that by telling the truth so nobly she had atoned for all.
He lighted it to plague me Johnny did." "I'm ever so sorry, auntie," said Percy, and his regretful face said as much as his words. "Johnny scared me to death," broke in Dotty; "and then he pumped water on me all over Johnny did." "I'll never do so again," said Percy, shamed by the look of reproach in his uncle's face. "See that you remember your promise, my boy.
Rose, leading the way to the open tent. "Come on, boys, and help me fetch wood." The boys followed their host and under direction of Mrs. Rose and Dotty the open tent was transformed into a cosy and inviting place. Hemlock and spruce boughs were thrown about and partly covered with Indian blankets and many cushions and pillows and mats of woven rattan. Mrs.
She had a great deal to tell, and the whole household was ready to listen. Norah would stand with a dish or a rolling-pin in her hand, and almost forget what she had intended to do in her desire to hear every word Miss Dotty was saying.
Just because she's the only one of us incapable of such a thing, I guess!" "Why, Dot Rose, what a speech!" and Dolly almost laughed at the belligerent Dotty. "None of us would take it wrongly, I'm sure but " "Well, but what?" demanded Alicia, as Dolly paused. "Oh, nothing, Alicia, but the same old arguments. Mistake, unintentional, caught in our dresses, and all that."
"Let's go to the Metropolitan Museum first," she said. "All right," chimed in Alicia, "we'll go there in the morning, then. But to-morrow is Wednesday, and I want to go to a matinee in the afternoon. Can't we, Uncle Jeff?" "Of course you can. Tell Fenn, he'll see about tickets for you. Just tell Mrs. Berry to see Fenn about it." "Oh," sighed the outspoken Dotty, "it is just like Fairyland!
My eyes grew weary and began to twitch, but they did not break down. Perhaps, toward the last, I got a bit dotty. I know that at the time I was confident, I had discovered the formula for squaring the circle; but I resolutely deferred the working of it out until after the examinations. Then I would show them.
O, if Susy was here with a shingle!" "We're going to be drownded!" cried Lina; "and, Solly Rosenberg, you hadn't oughter made me come!" "And you told an awful, wicked story," struck in Dotty, "for, Solly Rosenberg, you said you's old enough to row, and you're nowhere near old enough; and, O! O! O! you don't know how. And I'll tell my father! And he'll never know where I am!
Dotty looked as unmoved as one of the stone lions, and took no notice of the request. "What made they put two trees 'side that one tree?" asked she, by way of changing the subject. "Now, Dotty, you will go, that's a little love," said Susy, wringing her hands. "Only think, if you don't you'll lose five kisses to-night, and I dare say mamma will punish you, too."
But at last, Dolly's light went out, and her shade was slowly raised. Then, according to their plan, Dotty flashed her light on and off again. Dolly's light repeated this manoeuvre. Then Dotty did it again, and then Dolly did. The third time the flashes came and went, and then all ceremonies over, the two girls went to their new pretty, inviting beds, and were very soon asleep.
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