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I begrudge every minute you are gone." Joyce sped gaily away, and returned minus her hat and furs. "I left them in the hall," she explained, as Dorette looked up questioningly, having just re-entered. "Are you glad I'm to stay, Dodo? Do give me some sewing now, Dorey, just in the old way. Is there nothing to do for baby?" "Nothing!
We all got enthusiastic over it; there were you and Dorette and I, while Camille lay fast asleep in her cradle; and first one, then another, would propose some convenience, until we forgot the cold entirely. Finally you cried gaily, 'Wait, I'll draw a plan. These are good ideas for somebody, if not for us. Give me a pencil and paper Joyce, and presently you showed us what you had drawn."
But she began tamely enough. "I saw something in the paper the other day that I want to ask about. Is it your house here that is advertised for sale?" Madame Bonnivel nodded, and Dorette answered, "Yes, isn't it too bad? The owner has died and the estate is to be turned into money wherever possible.
Joyce," cried that lady, catching the hand between her own, while with a sharp little sound Camille sprang to her feet, Dorette meanwhile breaking into a laugh almost like Dodo's for innocent joy. "I knew you, Joyce!" said she, and Madame, caressing the girl's hand, added tremulously, "My dear, dear child!" "And so I'm no longer to be proprietor and boss," cried Larry, coming forward.
"Oh, yes! The pretty house with the dumb waiter going from cellar to attic, and the soiled clothes dump from the upper floors to the laundry, and the store-room down-stairs for trunks and heavy furniture, and " "And the long drawers under the deep window-seats for best gowns," broke in Dorette with unusual excitement, "and the little cedar closet for furs, and the elegant lighted closets.
Their entrance was rather imposing, though, despite precautions, for first came Larry with Madame, then Dorette with Joyce, and lastly Camille leading Dodo, with Ellen stalking at their side, the very picture of a duenna.
Early, looking decidedly sheepish, reappeared with his little daughter about this time, in fact. I can see, even now, the look of perfect rest and happiness upon her tear-stained little face as she nestled into my arms that evening, while Leon and you, Dorette, fairly radiant with joy, bent above her.
She found that riches set one out from the crowd as does the search-light which cannot be dodged nor dimmed, and sometimes she would have flung every dollar away, and given up all her pet schemes, just to have crept into the safe shelter of the Bonnivel home as a real child of that house, to become as happily obscure as Dorette, or Camille.
Her eyes are falling asleep while she is running about; if she stops one instant she'll be a goner!" All laughed as the child opened her drooping lids to their widest, and declared she "was dest as wide awake as a hen," but papa, who had re-entered, caught her regardless of protests. "I'll put her to bed, Dorette. You stay and visit, but don't, Joyce, tell quite all you know till I get back.
Spohr may have profited by Eck's experience, when some years later he met the beautiful and brilliant Dorette Scheidler; she was eighteen years old, and played that most becoming instrument, the harp, as well as the piano and violin.
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