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I felt very little and lonely. Then, in a flash, the memory came back that not fifty yards away was Dolly's little parlour, and Dolly herself; and my determination surged up once more. Suddenly His Majesty threw down his pen. "Mr. Mallock," he said very sternly, "there is only one excuse for you that you were drunk last night. Do you plead that?"
'And she will when she sees the lovely dress I have for her, he thought to himself, and after his brother had gone he went to the large closet where he kept the long black trunk which he called Gretchen's, and into which Dolly's curious eyes had never looked, although she longed to know the contents.
The gypsy girl, as Bessie understood thoroughly, was running severe risks. If the two men knew that she was in league with Dolly's friends they would certainly take some steps to silence her. But John, Bessie felt sure, did not believe that Lolla, no matter how jealous she might be, would actually betray her own people to the hated Americans.
"Settling the affairs of the nation," said Geordie; "also, it's a case of 'change partners." He jumped up, took Dolly's hands in his, and they swayed off across the ice, leaving Dotty and Ted together. "Don't mind him; he's crazy" said Ted, as he dropped onto the seat beside Dotty. "And anyway, we're such chums we share our best friends with each other!" "Glad you do!
What with their school expenses and their clothes, the necessary funds for the Carroll family amounted to six hundred pounds a year. That was the regular allowance, and there were others whenever Mr. Carroll wanted a pair of trousers. And Dolly's acerbation was aroused by a belief on her part that the money asked for trousers took him generally to race-courses.
"I know that's so," and Dolly's blue eyes looked very troubled, "but it isn't nice to take clothing from anybody but your own people." "But Dolly," argued Alicia, "if you kick up a bobbery, and refuse to take this kind offer, then we'll all have to do the same, and you deprive us all of the pretty presents." "Oh, Alicia, I'd be sorry to do that!" "Well, that's what it would amount to.
A night on the way, and Dolly's company at supper, all alone with me, or even with her maid, appeared to me too formidable to face. When we were out in the country, I reined my horse in. I saw a change pass over Dolly's face; then it became like stone. "We have a long ride, for one day," said I. She made no answer. My anger rose a little. "My Cousin," I said, "I had the honour to speak to you."
Mollie's air was Dolly's own as she answered her, people always said she was like Dolly, despite the fact that Dolly was not a beauty at all. "There may be something in that," she said. "Suppose we admit it and return to the subject Do you think he is nice, Aimée?" "Do you?" "Yes, I do," but without getting rose-colored this time.
Hannah's discontent at Dolly's lack and Susie's plenty, and the prospect of Cordelia's triumphs through the petted little sister, grew upon her, and resulted in unlooked-for trials to Cordelia, who was much discomfited by the force of her companion's criticisms.
Dolly's manner toward her had altered that very morning in Dubuque, though Rose, in her preoccupation, didn't mark the change for a day or two afterward. Then she saw that her frail little roommate had stopped chattering; that she no longer made nervous little excuses for leaving her, nor invented transparent little fibs to account for absences.
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