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Updated: June 12, 2025
'What was the commission, Harold? asked Mabel. 'Oh, ah! I met my uncle to-day, and he told me to find out if you would be able to run down to Chigbourne one Saturday till Monday soon. I suppose you won't. He's a dear old boy, but he's rather a dull old pump to stay two whole days with. 'You forget he's Dolly's godfather, said Mabel.
"What is the matter with you, Doll?" asked Trudy; "you are unreasonable about the little Rose girl." "Let her alone," said Dolly's mother; "she'll get over it." "I'll never get over it," declared Dolly; "I don't want to know a girl as big as I am, who plays with dolls." "How do you know she plays with dolls?" "Well, a dolls' carriage went in there the day they moved in."
He tried to caress the child, with a clumsy tenderness, but she stamped her little foot. Outside, they heard the voices of the other children. Miss Dowse was talking to Master Bowdoin of sights in the harbor; but how early is a boy sensible to a child's prettiness! he was asking after Mercedes. It was now Miss Dolly's turn to bite her lip. "She's in the cabin, crying because she has no gloves."
"Does he live in a bootiful place?" she asked, again. "It's a more beautiful place than I can tell," answered old Oliver. "The Lord Jesus gives them light brighter than the sun; and the streets are all of gold, and there are many little children there, who always see the face of their Father." "Dolly's going rere," said the little child, solemnly.
"I am afraid you'll be cold upstairs," observed Dolly, addressing Anna; "I want to move you downstairs, and we shall be nearer." "Oh, please, don't trouble about me," answered Anna, looking intently into Dolly's face, trying to make out whether there had been a reconciliation or not. "It will be lighter for you here," answered her sister-in-law.
It made me go to bed so very, very happily, and that is not always the case the night of a birthday. I have known children who, even when they are pretty big, cry themselves to sleep because the long-looked-for day is over. It did not matter to me that my dolly's bed had cost nothing except, indeed, what was far more really precious than money granny's loving thought and work.
Dolly's chorus-man, it seemed, had already departed on an earlier train to St. Louis, where he lived, without taking any leave of her at all. Rose wanted to go over and try to comfort the child, but somehow she couldn't manage to. Sentimentalizing over her grief and disillusionment wouldn't do any good.
If I've got my darling back, and none the worse for that vagabone rascal, I know whom I have to thank. Shake hands with me up to the elbows, sir! A Frenchman you may be, but you're one of the right breed, by God! And, by God, sir, you may have anything you care to ask of me, down to Dolly's hand, by God! All this he roared out in a voice surprisingly powerful from so small a person.
This little incident, illustrative though it was of Mrs Varden's extraordinary sweetness and amiability, had so strong a tendency to check the conversation and to disconcert all parties but that excellent lady, that only a few monosyllables were uttered until Edward withdrew; which he presently did, thanking the lady of the house a great many times for her condescension, and whispering in Dolly's ear that he would call on the morrow, in case there should happen to be an answer to the note which, indeed, she knew without his telling, as Barnaby and his friend Grip had dropped in on the previous night to prepare her for the visit which was then terminating.
And it must be owned on Dolly's behalf that his manner on this occasion was qualified to convince. 'Yes, he said to Squercum; 'it's easy saying that I'm lack-a-daisical. But I know when I'm lack-a-daisical and when I'm not. Awake or asleep, drunk or sober, I never signed that letter. And Mr Squercum believed him.
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