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"You gimme ten dollars or I'll make trouble for you! If you haven't got it, you can get it. Gimme your word of honour you look like a gentleman to bring me that ten, and I'll promise to make no trouble." Tod hesitated. Had he been alone, he would have refused them at once, but he felt that he had the responsibility of Dotty's welfare, and he paused to reflect.
"Oh, no, little miss," said Fenn, "Mr. Forbes is far too easy-going to look after this affair by himself! He'd swallow all the stories you girls would tell him! I'll remain, if you please. Unless you have something to conceal, you can't object to my presence at this interesting confab." Dolly came to Dotty's aid. She looked at the secretary with a glance of supreme contempt.
Dotty's sole answer was a violent sneeze, which burst off two buttons, the only ones which fastened the scarlet merino. "I've broke my dress," said Dotty, calmly. The little girls were greatly amused, but Dotty eyed them with such a gaze of lofty disdain that they kept their faces as straight as possible. "Poor thing," said cousin Florence; "how tired you must be!
The air inside the house was rather stifling from a mixture of odors, and soon the grocery began to fill with loud-talking men and boys; but not the least of Dotty's troubles was the black and tan dog, who seemed to have just such a temper as Mrs. Rosenberg, and would certainly have scolded if he had had the gift of speech.
But Abby had a hope that no one would notice it through her white apron. As Dotty's hair was now in fine order, the two children set out on their walk. They had gone but a few steps when Zip came trotting along, with all speed, looking up in their faces as if to say, "What have I done, that I can't go too?" "Queer what made him want to come," said Abby, tartly.
"We can't hurry, you know," said Prudy, "because Dotty's feet are so little." "I never should have thought of bringing her," exclaimed Susy. "Any one would think she'd been eating snails. When she takes up her foot she shakes it before she puts it down." "O, what a 'tory!" said Dotty Dimple, tossing her head. "I never shaked my foot; did I, Prudy?"
Dotty's tones were low and earnest. "Who told you so?" said Jennie. "My mamma; and she says we couldn't move nor breathe without Him not a minute." "There, I did then!" cried Jennie, taking a long breath; "I breathed way down ever so far, and I did it myself." "O, but God let you."
For one thing, Dotty's bird died. She had loved it for its helplessness; but Angeline said, "You needn't be sorry. What did I tell you when you took that bird into the window? I knew something would happen; but didn't know as it would be a boat-wreck exactly." Dotty, and even Prudy, had received some very foolish ideas from Angeline.
Isn't something always happening which you have to be patient about?" Susy thought of Prudy's habit of disclosing secrets, Dotty's trying way of destroying playthings; and now this long delay about her present. She began to think there were a great many vexations in the world, and that she bore them remarkably well for such a little girl.
She's going to cry if you don't." Dotty's prediction seemed in imminent danger of being fulfilled, but Dolly sprang up and began a frolicking song and dance intended to divert the baby's attention. But for a few moments only Gladys was pleased with this entertainment. With the persistency of her kind, she returned again and again to the subject of her greatly desired water trip.
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