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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I have begun on new curtains for Katy's room already, and Elsie and I have all manner of beautiful projects for the weddings. Now Johnnie darling, write at once and say that you agree to this plan. It really does seem a perfect one for everybody. The time must of course depend on when Dorry can get his leave, but we will be all ready whenever it comes."
"Do not ask me," she said affectedly; "my nerves would never stand such a thing! And besides my dress!" "What made you wear it?" said Philly, who was a plain-spoken child, and given to questions. While John whispered to Dorry, "That's a real stupid girl. Let's go off somewhere and play by ourselves."
Jimmy pattered down the path to the lighted doorway, delivered his message, and pattered back again toward the gate, wasting no time en route. Halfway to the gate he stopped. Mr. Bartley was standing very close to Dorry in fact, Jimmy was amazed to see him kiss her. Jimmy turned and trotted back to the house. "Shucks!" he exclaimed. "I thought he liked guns and things more'n girls!"
In fact there was a tremendous hubbub: hurrahs from Dorry, stamping of feet, and a great outcry of shrill, glad voices. Looking down, Miss Petingill saw the whole six no, seven, for Cecy was there too stream out of the wood-house door which wasn't a door, but only a tall open arch and rush noisily across the yard.
It would be for quite different reasons, if I did." Then, after a short pause, she added, "I wonder what they will say at Bideford." It was an indirect yes, but Dorry understood that it was yes. "Then you'll think of it? You don't refuse me? Imogen, you make me very happy." Dorry did look happy; and as bliss is beautifying, he looked handsome as well.
Johnnie gave Katy a case of pencils, and Clover a pen-knife with a pearl handle. Dorry and Phil clubbed to buy a box of note-paper and envelopes, which the girls were requested to divide between them. Miss Petingill contributed a bottle of ginger balsam, and a box of opodeldoc salve, to be used in case of possible chilblains.
Dorry Benton laid aside the several tools that he had gathered up and looked about as if wondering what to do next. "He saved your life," Will Dawson said to Roy. "Do you think I don't know that?" Roy replied, a little catch in his voice. "Maybe if you sort of you know, if you save a life, maybe it makes up for taking one " El Sawyer said. But it was plain that he did not quite believe that.
Isn't that nice? The prizes were books: one was the life of Benjamin Franklin, and the other the Life of General Butler. Papa says he doesn't think much of the Life of Butler; but Dorry has begun it, and says it is splendid. Phil says when he takes a prize he wants candy and a new knife; but he'll have to wait a good while unless he studies harder than he does now.
She seized a bell-rope and rang it furiously, and a loud gong filled the hall with its brazen din; but nobody came. "Where the devil are those blacks?" said Dorothy, biting off her words with a crisp snap that startled me more than her profanity. "Cato! Where are you, you lazy " "Ahm hyah, Miss Dorry," came a patient voice from the kitchen stairs.
The nosegay moved faster, and at last vanished under the gate, while a giggle sounded from the other side of the hedge. "Did you see that?" shrieked Maria; "those flowers ran away of themselves." "Nonsense," said Katy, "it's those absurd children." Then, opening the gate, she called: "John! Dorry! come out and show yourselves." But nobody replied, and no one could be seen.
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