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Updated: May 28, 2025
Then this self-sacrificing woman went hastily away that he might not see that her heart was bursting; and thereupon, before they left the city, Dorothy changed her mother and her home. After this, the Countess went away to London for a while, taking Dorothy with her; and the baronet and his wife returned to their lonely place at Deansleigh Park without her.
After this operation they went home to Deansleigh Park, and made a beginning of living happily ever after.
Nevertheless, when the change came, and Dorothy was handed over to the kind cottage-woman, the poor child missed the luxurious roominess of Fernell Hall and Deansleigh; and for a long time her little feet, which had been accustomed to carpets and oak floors, suffered from the cold of the stone flags on which it was now her lot to live and to play; while chilblains came upon her fingers with washing at the pump.
'Between this husband and this baby, little Dorothy, you who had two homes are left out in the cold, he said. 'Can't I go to London with my pretty mamma? said Dorothy, perceiving from his manner that there was a hitch somewhere. 'I am afraid not, my child. She only took you to live with her because she was lonely, you know. 'Then can't I stay at Deansleigh Park with my other mamma and you?
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