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Updated: June 3, 2025
Time was always moving, under it all; in a few weeks the Clifford Frosts would be home again; in a few months the High School would stand on the ground where little Sally and Martie Monroe had played dolls' house a few years ago. This was her last week at the Library; Daisy David was coming in to take her place.
Accordingly, having first ascended the highest steeple in the town, and been more disgusted than in any place I have seen since Spain, with virgins and dolls in beads and muslins, and pomatum and relics of saints' beards, and napkins from our Saviour's tomb, and mummeries quite disgraceful, we went to call upon them....
As for Judie, she would hardly have raised her eyebrows if Sam had burned water, or whittled it into dolls' heads before her eyes. She believed in Sam absolutely, and supposed, as a matter of course, that he knew everything and could do anything he liked. But Joe was not yet satisfied that water could be made to assist in the kindling of a fire.
He turned the pages carefully passing over his sisters in wide crinolines and spoon bonnets; his mother, photographed from an old picture, in a low dress and long dropping bands of hair, like a mouflon's ears, about her face; Fred and himself, both as boys in Scotch suits, set stiffly against the table like dolls with gradual improvement in art and style, till he came to a page where Adelaide's fair vignetted head of large size was placed side by side with another, also vignetted and also large.
She was a little hurt that Lena had not been accompanied by the blue-eyed article with preposterously long eyelashes that had been bestowed on her at the Goyle; but the little Australian had no opinion of dolls, and had let the one bought for her at Sydney be thrown overboard by the ship's monkey. "That was cruel!" said Lily, fondling her black-eyed specimen.
Dolls that looked for all the world like men the Tree had never beheld such before were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed. It was really splendid beyond description splendid. "This evening!" they all said. "How it will shine this evening!" "Oh!" thought the Tree. "If the evening were but come! If the tapers were but lighted!
The party started for New York in a day or two, and to the delight of Flo and Do they were left out of the trunks for Clara to play with on the way, her own waxen Blanche Marie Annabel being too delicate to be used. "Oh my patience, this is worse than tumbling about in a mail-bag," groaned Dora, after hours of great suffering, for Clara treated the poor dolls as if they had no feeling.
Or if Aunt Martha suggested her unloved and neglected dolls, she would retire to the corner with them inevitably to come back in disgrace. Either the large wooden-headed doll came noisily down from the high-backed chair, where she had been placed as the Maid of Saragossa, or a suspicious smell of burning arose, when Joan of Arc really did take fire from the candle on her imaginary funeral-pile.
As long as she thinks you're out on your own defying the absurd conventions by which women are made into what she calls 'bedizened dolls for the amusement of the brutalised male sex, she'll be all on your side. But once she thinks you've given up your economic independence she'll simply turn round and help Lady Torrington to hunt you down." Mr. Pennefather emerged from the tent.
"You could dip and I could dip, and I could give you what I get." She was longing to know the contents of a certain interesting irregular parcel. "The furniture is so sweet," said Molly, "and I am sure I want it." "The paper dolls are sweet, too," said Julia. "Yes, and so is the pink stuff. I shall have to take a dip to decide it."
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