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Updated: June 3, 2025
That tall, slim, beautiful creature whose face had been pale and was habitually pale was in her face crimson, her slight young bosom heaving, her eyes, so often sleepy, flashing, her young hands clenched. "I call it a shame!" Her voice was high and raw. "I call it a shame! I call it wicked! I call it abominable! I call it an an outrage!" Rosalie said, "Doda! Doda, I haven't reproached you.
Benji was no more than a baby, but he was extraordinarily devoted to Doda, liked only the things that Doda liked, and did not like the things that Doda didn't like, or, in the language sometimes a little unpleasantly emphatic that always was Doda's and Huggo's, that Doda "simply loathed." Rosalie had some old bound numbers of treasured juvenile periodicals of the rectory days.
A baby girl! A tiny woman-bud to be a woman with her in the house of Harry and of Huggo! A woman treasury into which she could pour her woman love! Her self's own self, whose earliest speech chose for herself her name her Doda! It all worked splendidly.
I haven't reproved you. If they had been letters you could have shown me, yes, then a shame " The child called out, "I'm nearly seventeen! I call it an outrage!" Rosalie got up and went to her. "Darling, they couldn't be shown. They're just burnt. They're forgotten." She put out inviting arms. "My poor Doda!" That child, almost touched by her arms, brushed herself from the arms.
Huggo had rooms somewhere, no one quite knew where, and lived there. Rosalie used to get Lucy to the house sometimes, but Lucy was never at her ease on these visits, and Doda, who sympathized entirely with Huggo in the matter, very much disliked her and would not meet her. Lucy was in bad health and she was going to have a baby.
Poor old Prenk Bib Doda was in our hotel. He was Prince of the Miridites. As a boy he had been kidnapped by the Turks and haled off to Constantinople. Grown to a middle-aged man in captivity, he was restored to his tribes during the Young Turk Revolution, only to be abducted by the Montenegrins, and to be kept practically a prisoner in Cettinje.
Are you ever in the home?" She implored, "Oh, my dear!" He was not to be placated. "Where is the home?" "Harry!" "Where's Doda?" She began in her spirit to move. "Staying with friends." "Where's Benji?" "You perfectly well know. Staying with friends." "Where are you?" She put her hand to her bosom. "Oh, beware me, Harry. Here." "For the night. Are you ever in the children's home?" "Are you?"
Let me read the letters and we'll talk about them and see if it's nice to go on writing to the men, in each individual case. That certainly you shall do, continue writing, if it all seems nice to us, together, Doda. If you won't show them to me well, let us say if you'd rather not show them to me then I'll ask you just to burn them and we'll forget it."
The subject came up again between Rosalie and Harry that evening and it was decided that Doda should be placed there after the next holidays, at the opening of the summer term. Harry declared himself, "in my bones" as he expressed it, against boarding schools for girls, "But that's my old fogeyism," said he.
"You should have consulted me, Doda." The child assumed the Huggo look. "Mother, how could I? They only asked me on the telephone at tea-time. How could I have consulted you?" "In the same way as you were invited. On the telephone." "Well, I never thought about it. Why should I if I had? I knew you'd have agreed. You wouldn't have stopped me, would you? It's dull enough, goodness knows."
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