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"I'll try to," replied Prudy, with a look of meek forbearance, as she sipped the lemonade. Somebody said once to Susy and Flossy, when they were having a frolic in "Prudy's sitting-room," up stairs, "What happy little things! You don't know what trouble is, and never will, till you grow up!"
"Well," said grandma, "I don't know, You may be thinking all day what you would like best. Not to eat, dear, but to keep, remember. Now I must go down stairs but here come Grace and Susy, so you won't be lonesome." It was pleasant to see how softly the little girls entered the room, and how the glad smiles came and went on Prudy's face when they tried to amuse her.
He had great reverence for age, and could keep his mouth from twitching; but I'm sorry to say Prudy's danced up at the corners, and Dotty's opened and showed her back teeth The woman must have had all those clothes made when she was young, for nobody wore such things now; but it wasn't likely she knew that, poor soul!
"Yes, they did," said Prudy, "and I wasn't well, and they shouldn't have gone and took me up there, and 'twas 'cause they were naughty." "What shall I do with children that disobey me in this manner?" said grandma, much displeased. "Worst of all," said aunt Madge, pulling off Prudy's shoes, "this child has got her feet wet, and is sure to be sick."
She could not look at her little sister's pale face, and not be touched with pity. One afternoon, Flossy Eastman and Ruthie Turner came to see Susy; and, as it was one of Prudy's best days, Mrs. Parlin said they might play in Prudy's sitting-room. Ruthie was what Susy called an "old-fashioned little girl."
She ran up to Miss Parker, and caught hold of the skirt of her dress, hiding her head in it. "O, Miss Parker!" said she, "I've got to cry. Nanny won't do so no more. The toad was just as alive as could be, but it never bit a bit! O, won't you please to don't!" This was about the last of Prudy's going to school.
Isn't something always happening which you have to be patient about?" Susy thought of Prudy's habit of disclosing secrets, Dotty's trying way of destroying playthings; and now this long delay about her present. She began to think there were a great many vexations in the world, and that she bore them remarkably well for such a little girl.
Horace put his hand in his breast pocket. Wonder of wonders! There was the wallet! And not only his, but Prudy's! Had he been asleep all day? Or was he asleep now? "Money safe? Not a cent gone. Hoo-rah! Hoo-ra-ah!" And for want of a cap to throw, he threw up Fly. "Where did it come from? Where did the old woman find it? O, no; the man in the green-bottle coat?
Her hair was dark brown, and as smooth and straight as pine-needles; while Prudy's fair hair rippled like a brook running over pebbles. Prudy's face was sunny, and her mouth not much larger than a button-hole. The youngest sister was named Alice, but the family usually called her Dotty, or Dotty Dimple, for she was about as round as a period, and had a cunning little dimple in each cheek.
"Why don't you bring my own mamma?" said she. "Look at me, darling," said her mother, "here I am, right here. Mother won't leave her little Prudy again." "I ain't Prudy!" screamed the child; "Prudy's gone to heaven. God came and helped her up the steps." One of the first things Mrs. Parlin did was to cut off her little daughter's beautiful curls, and lay them tenderly away in a drawer.
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