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"I can scarcely realize it all yet," said Lottie, with tears in her eyes. "I suppose it is because you are so natural and true that you seem so odd to me, who have been brought up among those that I fear look at things in false lights." "I think I understand you, my dear," said Mrs. Dlimm, hopefully. "A child's penny toy will hide a great mountain if held too near the eyes.
Lottie laughed, till the tears came, at Hemstead's blushing confusion, but said after a moment, "That would be a graceless request from me." "I don't think you would have to ask twice," whispered Mrs. Dlimm. "Did you ever hear of the man who was given a white elephant?" asked Lottie, in her ear. "No, what about him?" said Mrs. Dlimm, simply.
But seeing Mr. Dlimm on the way, she beckoned him aside with a portentous nod. He, poor man, heard her tidings with dismay. He had fallen into the habit of taking all his difficulties either to the Lord or to his wife, and in this case he felt that both must come to his aid. With Mrs. Gubling he at once hastened to the nursery, and entered rather abruptly. Mrs.
Dlimm turned her eyes inquiringly toward Lottie, who said, laughingly, "It would seem, last week, that I was a heathen and Mr. Hemstead a heretic." "And what are you now?" "O, he's all right now." "And not you?" "I fear I shall always be a little crooked; but I hope I am not exactly a heathen any longer." "Miss Marsden was a heathen, as Nathanael was a shrewd and dishonest Jew," said Hemstead.
When they had been to nearly all, Lottie said to her now beaming companion, "Go and get Mrs. Dlimm, and seat her in the large rocking-chair in the parlor."
Then the stingy clodhoppers that you have inveigled into doing something that they will repent of with groanings that cannot be uttered to-morrow will go home resolving to pinch and save till they make good what they have given." He then added carelessly to Mrs. Dlimm, not waiting for an introduction, "I am surprised that you and your husband are willing to stay among such a people."
Now I assure you that I am the most ordinary of mortals, and without my wand I could not conjure at all." Lottie gave him a look at this point which heightened his color, but he continued: "Miss Marsden, in her generosity, shall not give to me the credit for events which I trust will add a little sunlight to your life this winter, Mrs. Dlimm.
Again Lottie averted her face, while a dozen rainbows danced in her moist eyes. But she managed to say, "Which do you think I had better do?" He tried to catch her eye, but she would not permit him. After a moment he sprang up and said, with something of her own brusqueness, "You had better follow your own heart." "That is what Mrs. Dlimm said," she exclaimed, struck by the coincidence.
Dlimm has been wanting this book a long time, and now he pores over it so much that I am getting jealous." "The opinions expressed in such a ponderous volume ought to have great weight, surely," said Hemstead, smiling.
She still wished to stand well in his estimation, though why she hardly knew. She was now greatly vexed with herself that she had refused to visit Mrs. Dlimm. She was most anxious that he should return, in order that she might discover whether he had become disgusted with her; for, in the knowledge of her own wrong action, she unconsciously gave him credit for knowing more about her than he did.
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