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I sighed as I remembered the sun and the flowers and the blue Chesapeake, and recalled the very toss of her head when she had said she would marry nothing less than a duke. Alas, Dolly, perchance it was to be nothing more than a duke!
There are six of us, you know; three girls and three boys. First Dolly and Emily, then the boys and then me." "I should think it would be lovely to have so many brothers and sisters." "It is, only sometimes the boys tease, and my sisters think I must always do as they say because they are so much older, and sometimes I want to do as I please." "But oughtn't you to mind them?" "Oh, I suppose so.
"I want to go to New York with you, mamma," said Florelle; "I want to buy a new dolly." "No, baby," said her mother, "you can't go this time. You stay at home like a good girlie, and I'll bring you a beautiful new doll." "But I want to go! I will go!" and Florelle began to cry. "Stop that crying," said her father, "stop it at once, and when I come home I'll bring you a big box of candy."
"What was my prediction, Miss Dolly, when you stepped your first dance at Carvel Hall?" "Indeed, you do me wrong, Mr. Carvel!" "And I were a buck, you would not break mine, I warrant, unless it were tit for tat," said my grandfather; thereby putting me to more confusion than Dolly, who laughed with the rest. "'Tis well to boast, Mr. Carvel, when we are out of the battle," cried Mr. Lloyd.
Still you would win more with a partner who understood your game." The shrewd Dolly paused a moment, and leaning significantly on Jasper's arm, added, in a half whisper, "I do; it is a French one." Jasper did not change colour, but a quick rise of the eyebrow, and a slight jerk of the neck, betrayed some little surprise or uneasiness: however, he rejoined without hesitation, "French, ay!
"Well, my dear," grandma was saying, "she had it on the very day that Uncle Joe came in as she sat at work, and said, 'Dolly, we must be married at once. 'Very well, Joe, says Aunt Dolly, and down she went to the parlor, where the minister was waiting, never stopping to change the dimity dress she wore, and was actually married with her scissors and pin-ball at her side, and her thimble on.
"You're an old dear, Marcia!" she cried. "I knew you wouldn't keep on hating us when you knew us better and you'll forgive me, won't you, for playing that horrid trick with the mice?" Dolly had broken the ice, and in a moment the stiffness of the two groups of girls was gone, and they mingled, talking and laughing naturally.
He was very cross, as brave as brandy could make him, and well inclined to expose Miles Grendall if he could find an opportunity. Up in the card-room he found all the accustomed men, with the exception of Miles Grendall. Nidderdale, Grasslough, Dolly, Paul Montague, and one or two others were there.
"I shouldn't be at all surprised," said I. "And another point occurs to me, Lady Mickleham." "Oh, does it? What's that, Mr. Carter?" "Do you think that anybody measured the rain gauge!" Dolly looked at me very gravely. "I'm so sorry when you do that," said she pathetically. I smiled. "I really am," said dolly. "But you don't mean it, do you?" "Certainly not," said I. Dolly smiled.
"But there are so many things to do, it sets me crazy to think of it!" "I'm going to buy things," announced Bernice. "There aren't any decent shops in Berwick, and I'm going to get lots of things in the city stores." "We can't do that," said Dolly, decidedly. "We haven't lots of money like you have, Bernie; I'm going to see things. I want to see all the pictures I possibly can.
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