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Updated: June 26, 2025
"You say that you will try and bear it, and that father is not to mind? But father must mind. If I go to Aunt Jane Dolman's, why why, it will kill me." And the most beautiful of all the heathen gods cast such a glance of scorn at his parent at that moment that Mr. Delaney absolutely quailed. "For goodness' sake, Apollo, don't eat me up," he said.
Crane was not an agnostic, but he had interested himself little in church matters; and the Reverend Dolman's concert, that was meant to top down many weeds of debt that were choking the church, had claimed him simply because an evening in Brookfield had come to hang heavily on his hands.
Dolman's knee. The moment she did so, Mr. Dolman threw the rod on the floor. "It's a horrid business," he said. "I hate corporal punishment. We have hurt the child. Here, give her to me." "Nonsense, William! She is only pretending." But this was not the case.
That was why he had reasoned with the butcher by energetically grasping his windpipe the evening that worthy gentleman had expressed himself so distastefully over Allis Porter's contribution to the Reverend Dolman's concert.
Dolman's queer ways by this time." Accordingly Miss Ramsay reseated herself, and again took up her novel. She turned the leaves, and soon got into a most interesting part of the volume. Lost in the sorrows of her hero and heroine, she forgot all about Diana Delaney and her bow and arrow. Meanwhile, Diana, walking rapidly away by herself, was reflecting hard.
No sooner had this resolve formed itself in Fortune's stalwart mind than she hailed a fly and desired the man to drive her to the Madersley Arms. When she reached the big hotel she was shown at once into Mr. Dolman's presence. "Now, sir," she said; "I hope you have all had a good tea and enjoyed it."
He saw the white wall strike Dolman's farm; there was a light in one window now. He saw the farm-house, with its one light, swim bodily, then melt and disappear, with all the poor souls in it. He galloped on: his hat flew off; he came under the coiners' house, and yelled a warning.
Dolman's discussion; and, rather remarkably, their deductions were alike, having the same subject of mental retrospect Allis Porter. It was evident that outside of her family little interested her but horses; certainly not a very lofty aspiration.
Dolman, who had no idea of letting the culprit off. "Now, then, William, do your duty." "But it's all wight," said Diana, gazing with puzzled eyes up into her aunt's face. "I's been a bad girl, but I's sossy; it's all wight, I say. Naughty wod, go 'way, naughty wod." She tried to push the rod out of Mr. Dolman's hand.
Dolman's rage at this great impertinence made her almost speechless. She flew after Diana, but would have had little or no chance of catching her, if the child had not suddenly tripped up against a stone and measured her full length on the ground. Before she could rise again Mrs. Dolman had caught her by the shoulder, and, as a preliminary measure, began to shake her violently.
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