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I guess I would n't like that, would I? And if you had to stand just hours and hours, and have her cold fingers poking around your neck, and those great sharp scissors going snip, snip all around your neck, just where they would cut great pieces out if you dared move, I don't believe you would like that yourself, Ruthy Warren, even if she did give you things for your doll."
Breakfast-time arrived, but no Ruthy came up from the quarter; no smoke curled upward from the kitchen-chimney; a more hopeless, dismal party could not well be imagined than the three women who walked from room to room among the débris, neither noticing or caring for the losses, only intensely anxious regarding the helpless prisoner, who was surely suffering, but whom they could not hope to relieve.
Parlin; "if she is rude, take care that the same fault does not appear in yourself, Susy." "But, mother," said Susy, suddenly veering about and speaking in Ruth's favor, "I don't know but it's proper to do as Ruthy does. If you know something, and other people don't, ain't it right to speak up and say it?"
You see, even if your mamma would let you come over and stay at my house, so you could be in the plan, it would n't be of any use, for it would be just like you to get afraid as soon as it was dark, and then you would cry and want to go back into the house." "I am afraid I would," Ruthy answered meekly, not resenting the accusation of cowardice.
"He told me about it this morning. It is only that I want Ruthy to know it the very first of all that I don't tell you about it this very minute, Mrs. Warren. You don't mind, do you?" "Oh, no," Mrs. Warren replied. "If your papa knows about it, I am quite satisfied." Ruby jumped down and went in search of Ruthy, who Mrs. Warren said was probably playing out in the barn. "Ruthy!
"Are you glad you are going to boarding-school?" asked Ruthy, looking at her rather soberly. "Why, yes, of course I am," said Ruby, trying to forget that it meant going away from home, too. "How long will you stay, do you suppose?" asked Ruthy. "Oh, I don't exactly know. Till mamma gets well again, papa said," Ruby replied. "I spose maybe about a year."
"Poor Ruthy! so she looks old, does she? I'm goin' to tell her right out, 't was I that spoke first to Tobias." The train stopped at a way station with apparent unwillingness, and there was barely time for one elderly passenger to be hurried on board before a sudden jerk threw her almost off her unsteady old feet and we moved on.
"I don't believe your mamma would like it one single bit; and suppose somebody should carry you off when you are out there all by yourself." "You just can't make me afraid, I guess, Ruthy Warren," sniffed Ruby, scornfully. "You are such a 'fraid-cat that you never want to do anything in all your life but play paper dolls.
Mamma would always have said, 'I wonder where Ruby could possibly have gone, and why she never, never comes home, and papa would worry and worry, and Ruthy would have been so lonely, and they would never, never have known."
I think if she knew how to make dresses, she ought not to have to fit so much. If I fitted my doll so often when I made her a dress, I guess her head would fall off. It would get shaky anyway, with so much fussing. Wait till I come back, Ruthy, and then we will play."
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