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And little Dolly shrugged her shoulders, and said, with a pretty pettishness, "Now, Father, you're not to tease! You know I don't want to be bride's-maid to anybody!" "And Dolly's to be the fourth," was her father's idiotic reply. Here Number Three put in her oar. "Oh, it is settled, Mother dear, really and truly! Mary told us all about it.
"Of course it's very small, but I guess it was used in the old days. There are all sorts of stories about buried treasure being hidden around here." "Do you believe those stories, Dolly?" "Not I! If there was any treasure around here it would have been found ever so long ago. They're just stories.
Ben Mayberry sprang to his feet. Like a flash it came upon him that some dreadful misunderstanding had been brought about by other parties, for which Dolly was not to blame. "Tell me the whole story, Dolly," he said in a kinder voice than he had used since they met, as he resumed his seat.
Burr's cat, who had travelled by request in a hamper to her married niece's at Clapham, in charge of Michael Ragstroar, would return and would then promptly have kittens in spite of doubtful sex-qualifications suggested by the name of Tommy; which kittens would belong to Dave and Dolly respectively, choice being made as soon as ever it was seen what colour they meant to be.
'Yes, she will, said Mabel impatiently; 'Dolly won't forget you after what you have done, and we are losing time. Go round by there, and call her now and then; if she is here she will come, and if not then we will try the next field. She went off herself as she spoke, and Mark had nothing for it but to obey, as she so evidently expected to be obeyed.
Tennison had allowed him to take her daughter to Florence to consult another specialist at the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova. "I think you know a Mrs. Cullerton," I remarked at last. The effect of my words upon her was almost electrical. "Dolly Cullerton!" she shrieked. "Ah! Don't mention that woman's name! Please do not mention her!"
I have had my lesson, and I sha'n't forget it." At his desk in his closed office a few minutes later he took a blank check, and, dipping his pen, he carefully filled it in. Mechanically he waved it back and forth in the warm air. Suddenly he started; a sort of shock went through him. How odd that he had not once, in all his excitement, thought of Dolly Drake!
So I overlook a lot of her tricks, when, if one of the other girls was guilty, I'd have to speak pretty severely about it. Well, here she is now! Go off with her if you like, Bessie." "Oh, Miss Mercer, what do we have to do this morning?" shouted Dolly as soon as she saw Bessie and the Guardian. "What you like until after lunch, Dolly.
But in the stores where they do have them, the girls get more done, and one of them told me once that she felt ever so much stronger and better when the rush came in the afternoon, if she'd been able to sit down instead of standing up all day." "Of course. And that's a splendid idea, Dolly.
"Now, dolly," whispered little Alice, bending down, "'member dat you're so glad Sammy's come back; mustn't say more not a word more." "It is enough for you to know, my darlings," continued Mrs Twitter, "that Sammy has been wandering and has come back." "Listen, Dolly, you hear? Sammy's been wandering an' come back. Dat's 'nuff for you."
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