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Well, of course everybody disliked her, and hated to see her come where they were. She never got invited anywhere, because nothing was safe from her little Paul Pry fingers; and when company came she generally got sent out of the room. It was a great pity, because she was really a pretty little girl, and a very bright one, too. "Oh, Miss Kizzy," said Luly, "I never will do so any more, I "
Alec, surveying the belt with great disfavour as he put the clasp forward several holes, to Rose's secret dismay, for she was proud of her slender figure, and daily rejoiced that she wasn't as stout as Luly Miller, a former schoolmate, who vainly tried to repress her plumpness. "It will fall off if it is so loose," she said anxiously, as she stood watching him pull her precious belt about.
The sculptor made it only for himself and his wife, but so many people, he said, had insisted on having a copy, that there are now forty scattered about the world. At sixty years, Luly ought to have her hand sculptured again, and give it to her grandchildren with the baby's hand of five months old.
She can stay awhile; and, when we go back to town, I'll put her in one of our charity schools, where she can be taught to earn her living. Can you read, Luly?" "No," said the mermaid, opening her eyes. "Can you write and cipher?" "What is that?" asked Lorelei innocently. "Dear me! what ignorance!" cried Uncle Fact. "Can you sew, or tend babies?" asked Aunt Fiction gently.
Why, Luly, I didn't say you did so; I was talking about Violetta. "Oh, but it is just like me," said the honest little girl; "I have done all those things, Miss Kizzy every one of them; but I didn't think it would make everybody hate me. I want to be loved, Miss Kizzy; but you don't know how dreadful hard it is for a little girl to 'keep still."
I love to play with them, and walk with them. They are often much pleasanter company than grown people at least, so Kizzy thinks. But that is only an old maid's opinion. I hadn't visited at the Tompkins' long, before I noticed that little "Luly," as they called her, was one by herself; that is, she was not a favorite with the rest of the family.
"You mean Luly; mind your pronunciation, child," said Miss Fairbairn, who corrected every one she met in something or other. "Where do you live?" "I haven't got any home now," said Lorelei, smiling at the lady's tone. "Yes, you have: my home is yours; and you are going to stay with me always," cried Fancy, heartily.
"The critics condemn minute representation," said Powers; "but you may look at this through a microscope and see if it injures the general effect." Nature herself never made a prettier or truer little hand. It was the hand of his daughter, "Luly's hand," Powers called it, the same that gave my own such a frank and friendly grasp when I first met "Luly."
Yes I do, Luly; and you needn't "keep still," as you call it, but you mustn't meddle with what don't belong to you. I see how it is: you are a very active little girl, and want something to do all the time. "Oh, that's so nice," said Luly. "Don't get a bench will you? Don't make me set up straight. Don't make me fold up my hands and keep my toes still, will you, Miss Kizzy?"
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