John Habberton,
At Last: Six Days in the Life of an Ex-Teacher…
(1888–1889|override_year)
“ Suiting the action to the word, the child carefully rearranged her insensate charges. "Alice, I like to tee little girls play with their dolls, but it isn't sensible to pretend that they are reel people." ”
John Habberton,
At Last: Six Days in the Life of an Ex-Teacher…
(1888–1889|override_year)
“ I had also been told that she was the most innocent-looking little thing in the world, and that she had cried tears copiously when told she had almost broken another woman's heart. She had never known that Frank had cared for any other woman, she said. There were men enough hanging about any pretty girl, so who could suspect her of "catching" another girl's beau? ”
John Habberton,
At Last: Six Days in the Life of an Ex-Teacher…
(1888–1889|override_year)
“ How old are you, Alice?" "Five years old." "You're old enough to speak plain, then, and I'll teach you, if you like." "But I don't like; my fahver says he believes he would kill somebody if dey'd make me talk plain. You wouldn't like to be killed, would you,—not before you got acquainted wiff my dolls?" "It might be advisable to die first," said I, looking at the sprawling figures that covered the bottom of the hammock. Meanwhile the doll's mother began to arrange the disordered garments of her brood, and to seat each doll decorously in the hammock. ”
