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With that she walked softly up the stairs, and listened at the door-latch; for the sound of her grandmother's voice was encouraging, and Dotty, in her loneliness, longed to be near the dear people of the family, even if she could not see them. "Edward," said her mother, what music there was in her voice!
By common consent the door was closed between the rooms, and on one side of it the two D's faced each other. "Did you ever see such a perfectly horrid, hateful, contemptible old thing as that Fenn person?" exclaimed Dotty, her voice fairly shaken with wrath. "I can't see how Mr. Forbes can bear to have him around! He ought to be excommunicated, or whatever they do to terrible people!"
"O, I'm isn't much little," cried Katie. "I's growing big." "I should think Prudy might go," said Dotty Dimple, with her finger in her mouth; "you don't make Prudy do a single thing!" "Prudy goes for the ice every morning," replied Mrs. Parlin. "I wish you to do as I ask you, Alice, and make no more remarks about Mrs. Gray."
"Matthew," demanded his sister, "why did he want to go fighting with all those people?" "Because he was dotty," supplied Moreton, who had an interesting habit of picking up slang. "It wasn't at all," cried Matthew, indignantly, interrupting Maude's rebuke of his brother. "What was it, then?" Moreton demanded.
The last thing she heard was Miss Polly singing a very mournful hymn through her nose; and, while she was wondering why it should keep people alive to shake them, she passed into dreamland. Very little good would such a heavy sleeper have done if Miss Polly had had an ill turn. It was Polly who was obliged to shake Dotty, and that rather roughly, before she could rouse her.
So, without saying a word, the little girl put her foot out, and of course it touched solid earth. "There!" she cried, "I did it, I did it! You said I was a coward; and who's a coward now? Where's your gold ring, Jennie Vance?" "Why, the ground is as hard as a nut, I declare," said Jennie, walking along after Dotty with great satisfaction.
Here is my only nephew, that drowned Prudy on a log, grown tall enough to offer me his arm. Why, how old it makes me feel!" "But you don't look old," said Dotty, consolingly; "you don't look married any more than Aunt Louise?" Here they took an omnibus, and the children interested themselves in watching the different people who sat near them. "Aren't you glad to come?" said Dotty.
If your papa and mamma had seen it, they would have said there was the last of Dotty Dimple. But, on second thought, you may be sure it was not the last of her; for if she was going to be drowned in the sixth chapter, I should never have written this book.
When the fireworks were all over and the young people gone away the girls were told that there was a little more celebration yet to come. Dolly's bed was pushed back to its place and Dotty was enthroned beside it in her easy chair, when the two boys appeared, each bearing a tray of good things. "This is your Fourth of July party," said Trudy, who followed.
We covered him up with his blankets, for he was pretty shivery. Then we came out. During the whole time, he had not spoken a word. As we went aft, Stubbins remarked that he thought the business must have made him a bit dotty. "It's driven him clean barmy," he went on. "He don't hunderstand a word that's said ter him." "He may be different in the morning," I answered.
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