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There were little blankets, too, worked round with pink wool, and little sheets, and everything all made out of nothing but love and contrivance! It was so delightful to wake the next morning and see Dollysweet in her nest beside me. She slept there every night for several years, and I am afraid after some time she slept there a good deal in the day also.
I always called that doll 'Dollysweet, and I ran the words together as if it was one name. 'Yes, certainly, said granny. Then she took my hand and I trotted upstairs beside her, carrying Dollysweet, of course.
I never neglected her or let her get dirty and untidy, though in time, of course, her pink-and-white complexion faded into pallid yellow, and her bright hair grew dull, and, worst of all after that I never could bear to look at her one of her sky-blue eyes dropped, not out, but into her hollow head. Poor old Dollysweet! The day after my third birthday grandmamma began to teach me to read.
For I soon learnt to know that 'fair' meant beautiful I think I learnt it first from some of the old fairy stories grandmamma used to tell me when we sat at work. That evening she took me up in her arms and kissed me. 'The sun is going to bed, she said to me, 'and so must my little Helena, even though it is her birthday. 'And so must Dollysweet, I said.
It must have been particularly beautiful, for I called out 'Oh, look, look, they're lighting all the beauty candles in heaven. Look, Dollysweet, it's for my birfday. Grandmamma was in the room and she heard me. But for a minute or two she did not say anything, and I went on talking to Dolly and pretending or fancying that Dolly talked back to me.
For I gave up playing with dolls rather young playing with a doll, I should say. I found it more interesting to have lots of little ones, or of things that did instead of dolls dressed-up chessmen did very well at one time that I could make move about and act and be anything I wanted them to be, more easily than one or two big dolls. Still I always took care of Dollysweet.
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