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The Doctor smiled, and kissed his hand, and a very disconsolate little party turned in the direction of Sleepy Hollow. If ever there was a girl whose mind was in a confused and complex state, that girl was Polly Maybright. Suddenly into her life of sunshine and ease and petting, into her days of love and indulgence, came the cold shadow of would-be justice.
They reverenced him much, they loved him well, but he was too busy and too great to be troubled by their little concerns. Of course, mother was different, for mother was part and parcel of their lives. There were six tall, slim, rather straggling-looking Maybright girls all overgrown, and long of limb, and short of frock.
How was a man's own heart to do without the sympathy to which it had turned, the love which had strengthened, warmed, and sustained it? Dr. Maybright was standing by the window, looking out at the familiar garden, which showed shadowy and indistinct in the growing dusk, when Polly crept softly into the room, and, going up to his side, laid her pretty dimpled hand on his arm.
"May I housekeep every second week instead of Nell? Will you give me the money instead of her, and let me pay for everything, and buy the food. I am awfully interested in eggs and butter, and I'll give you splendid puddings and cakes. Please say yes, father Nell is quite willing, if you are." "How old are you, Polly?" said Dr. Maybright.
Maybright met us in London, and took us down to Sleepy Hollow." "Bless the man! just like him. Had he any responsible matron or spinster in the house, child?" "I don't know; I don't think so. There was Helen and Polly and " "I don't want to hear about Polly! Go on; your ten minutes will soon be up. Go on."
She slipped into a seat by her father, and crumbled her bread-and-butter, and gulped down some weak tea, taking care to avoid any one's eyes, and feeling her own cheeks growing redder and redder. In mother's time Dr. Maybright had seldom spoken.
Maybright, she rushed off to find Polly. Polly was feeling intensely happy, playing with and fondling her sweet little baby sister, when Flower, pale and excited, rushed into the room. Nurse, who had not yet forgiven Flower, turned her back upon the young lady, and hummed audibly. Flower, however, was far too much absorbed to heed her. "Listen, Polly! you have got to come with me at once.
Now, how shall I get to the nearest town without meeting any one who would be likely to tell Dr. Maybright?" Flower had scarcely expressed herself in this fashion before once again the rough-looking man crossed her path. She greeted him quite joyfully. "Oh! you're just the person I want," she exclaimed. "I've got my purse now, and a little money in it. Would you like to earn a shilling?"
The dogs and the two children were all collected in the doorway of the hut, and now Polly could look more calmly up at the stars, and the tears rolled silently down her cheeks. It was in this position that, at about a quarter to nine, Dr. Maybright found her.
Maybright when he allowed Polly to learn experience by taking the reins of household management for a week. Except in matters that related to his own profession, Dr. Maybright was apt to be slightly absent-minded; here he was always keenly alive.
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