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Think, Lotty, how pleasant it would be not to do any more work." "I should like to sing sometimes, to sing good music, at the great concerts. That's what I thought I was going to do." "You shall; you shall sing as little or as often as you like. 'A sailor's wife a sailor's star should be. You shall be a great lady, Lotty, and you shall just command your own line.
Lotty Riker and her sister, who had been thoroughly frightened, felt immensely relieved at this, and for the moment everything seemed the same as before the outbreak; but it was only seeming. The majority of the company, without taking into consideration the provocation Becky had received, thought to themselves: "What a temper!"
I ought to have gone," said Jo, taking her sister in her arms as she sat down in her mother's big chair, with a remorseful face. "It wasn't dreadful, Jo, only so sad! I saw in a minute it was sicker, but Lottchen said her mother had gone for a doctor, so I took Baby and let Lotty rest. It seemed asleep, but all of a sudden if gave a little cry and trembled, and then lay very still.
"Oh, is it?" said Lotty, in the hoarse whisper which was all she could command "I suppose she wants to know why you didn't go. Read it to me." Ida read, and, in reading, suffered as she never did again throughout her life. "DEAR MRS. STARR, I am very sorry to have to say that Ida must not return to school.
Then I should know so much more, and I should be able to understand all the things you tell me I can't now. I don't care for playing at games and going to school." "You'll be a woman soon enough, Ida," said Lotty, with a quiet sadness unusual in her. "But go on; what else?" "And then I often wish I was a boy. It must be so much nicer to be a boy. They're stronger than girls, and they know more.
And Nelly's 'gaged, too, just as much as I am, only she hasn't got any wing, because Harry Sin " "Now, Lotty!" screamed Nelly, flinging herself upon her, "you mustn't tell the name." "So your name is Lotty, is it?" said Eyebright, who had abandoned Genevieve to the embraces of Jenny, and was digging in the sand with the rest. "No, it isn't.
At last the carts were empty, and only then did the little workers leave off, dead tired. Hermann could make curious heads out of the swedes, with eyes and nose and mouth. If you put an old candle-end inside, they looked ghastly, like some Chinese god. Lotty declared that they rolled about in the yard at night and grinned at her, and that she did not like "heads without people."
Lotty, as she grew up, gradually developed an unfortunate combination of her parents' qualities; she had her mother's weakness of mind, without her mother's moral sense, and from her father she derived an ingrained stubbornness, which had nothing in common with strength of character.
Lotty had spoilt her day that day, as she had spoilt her day the day before Lotty, with her invitation to her husband, with her suggestion that she too should invite hers. Having flung Frederick into her mind again the day before, Lotty had left her; for the whole afternoon she had left her alone with her thoughts. Since then they had been all of Frederick.
Not people who are well advised and under good management. Mind you, this business is under my direction. I am boss." She made no reply, but took her candle and went off to bed. In the dead of night she awakened her husband. "Joe," she said, "is it true that you know another girl who would do this for you?" "More than one, Lotty," he replied, this man of resource, although he was only half awake.
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