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Updated: May 18, 2025
Putting wings to her sturdy little feet, she sped across the lawn, ran helter-skelter into the house, and up to the room where she had slept. The room was empty, the windows were wide open, the little bed was neatly made; there was not a sign of the precious box to be discovered anywhere. "Where is that howid old nurse?" called Diana aloud. "She must know where my pets is.
"But if Aunt Jane makes you do howid lessons all day, and if Simpson is always fussing you and getting you to wash your face and hands, and if you can't never go with fellows, and if you is kept in and if and if " "Oh! don't begin all that, Di," said Apollo. "Where is the use of making the worst of things?" "Well, I want to make the best of things," said Diana.
"Very well, small girl," answered Mr. Dolman. "I am willing to listen to you. What is the matter?" This was really much more diverting than sitting down to his sermon. "I want you to have that howid old woman upstairs put in pwison. I want you to get the perlice, and have her hands tied, and have her took away to pwison.
"We can't stay in this howid place, Iris," she said; "all my darlin's has gone and got deaded. That howid old woman upstairs said they was wermin. She has killed 'em all. I can't stay here; I won't stay here. Take me back to the beautiful garden. Do, Iris; do. I'se just so mis'ble." Iris sat down on one of the hard-backed chairs.
He looked hard at Diana, saw something in her eyes which she could not suppress, and, with a sigh of mingled pleasure and alarm ran off to do her bidding. He returned in less than a minute with his large sailor hat stuck on the back of his head, and a white sun-bonnet for Diana. Diana's sun-bonnet had a black bow at the back and black strings. "Howid, hot old thing," she said, "I won't wear it.
"She looked howid this morning in the schoolroom, but she looks sort of gentle now. I even seed her smile a minute back, and I should not be a bit s'prised if she didn't hate Aunt Jane too. I know what I'll do; I'll just go and ask her there is nothing in all the world like being plain-spoke.
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