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Updated: June 29, 2025
Aunt Maria smiled. "Very well," said she; "then keep the doll as a recompense for the suffering you have endured. I hope you will not see two such gloomy days again during the summer." "O, you darling auntie! May I keep the dolly?" There was no sting now to mar Dotty's pleasure in her new possession. Her troubles seemed to be over; life was blossoming into beauty once more. "Good news!
But this, she concluded, was in some way connected with the entertainment called a wedding. "Come, now, little lady," said Mr. Hayden, taking Dotty's hand, and leading her up to Colonel Allen, "here is the uncle you have bought. He is new, and a soldier too. So you see I have done my best for you." "That?" said Dotty, pointing her index-finger at the bridegroom in surprise.
Dotty's swollen heart gave a great bound, and then sank heavier than ever. "My little daughter Alice has run away." That was what he said. "Is she in your house, Mrs. Rosenberg?" "Yes," replied Mrs. Rosenberg, "I expect its likely she is; but she and my Mandoline's been abed and asleep two hours." "O, papa, I'm wide awake!" cried little Dotty, with an eager shriek, which pierced the rafters.
Dotty's heart kept swelling and swelling, till presently it seemed as if there wasn't room enough in her whole body to hold it. She thought of the cheerful, orderly tea-table at home; she recalled her mother's gentle ways, her lovely face, and longed to kiss her cheek, and whisper, "Forgive me." "Mamma'll be just as patient with me," thought Dotty; "she always is!
This she slipped gently beneath Dotty's pillow, and then stepping softly to the open edge of the tent she stepped down to the ground and walked swiftly toward the lake. Dolly had learned as they came up the lake in the motor boat that there was a footpath along the lake shore which led directly from the camp to the railroad station.
"Why, you know, Dotty, if I said I would, I would." A sudden thought was darting across Dotty's mind, like another startled swallow; only this one came alone, and did not take her breath away; for it was a pleasant thought Where were they? Whose field was this? Why, it was Mr. Gordon's pasture. And Johnny came here for the cow every night of his life.
She likened her feelings on the occasion to those of a person whom "the mayor is putting in the lockup." Indeed, the "lock-up" was Dotty's dream of all the horrors, and she had no doubt it was the mayor himself who always stood with his hands outstretched, ready to thrust wicked people into it.
Dotty's cross behavior had entirely spoiled the pleasure of the evening for her two sisters. They felt, as they had felt years before, when they saw her, a mere baby, perched upon the wood-box, with her hands and feet tied they felt that it was a family disgrace.
There was a ring in Dotty's voice that proclaimed an unshakable determination, and Dolly knew it. She knew that no coaxing of Bernice or even of Dolly herself, could make Dotty go without her chum. For chums these two were, in the deepest sense of the word. They were together all that was possible during their waking hours.
He had great reverence for age, and could keep his mouth from twitching; but I'm sorry to say Prudy's danced up at the corners, and Dotty's opened and showed her back teeth The woman must have had all those clothes made when she was young, for nobody wore such things now; but it wasn't likely she knew that, poor soul!
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