Some village girls come in and one changes clothes with a doll and he thinks he's succeeded.
That's where I want to go first," said Madeline decisively; but on her way to the tops the doll counter beguiled her.
Betty Wales," she declared, "when you curl in your lips and stare straight ahead you look just like the only doll I ever wanted.
The strangest part of it was that something or somebody was bringing in little sticks of wood and cactus burrs and piling them up among the doll clothes.
Jack kept perfectly still and the little fellow, not even seeing him, continued its way across the floor to the bunk on which sat Jack beside the doll clothes.
Then there is a Christmas tree somewhere, with a doll on top, or a stupid old Santa Claus, and children dancing and screaming over bonbons and toys that break, and shiny things that are of no use.
But when she drew the curtain, instead of the lovely yellow-haired doll in her ruffled nightcap, she saw an ugly little black face staring at her, and a tiny hand holding the sheet fast.
A fine Paris doll driving in her carriage took up a black worsted Dinah who was hobbling along with a basket of clean clothes, and carried her to her journey's end, as if it were the proper thing to do.
Those aren't eggs," said Mary Jane scornfully, "those are clouds and this is going to be a paperdoll show.
Yes, Mary Jane was right when she said that the doll was all gone--it would take considerable work to put even the dress in order and the doll itself was broken beyond all mending.
If you do, tell him all about what happened and tell him he's going to mend your doll by finding her twin!
Mary Jane proudly, "and we'll give a paper doll show like Alice does--you just see!
By noon of the next day, she had the trunk so full of dolls and doll clothes and teddy bears and books that it couldn't possibly shut and she hadn't put in it one single thing to wear--not a single thing!
She did find her rag doll tucked back in the far corner of the closet and she began playing with her and forgot all about Kewpie and the new laundress and even about her own lonesomeness with Aunt Effie away.
There she pulled out every doll she had and set them in a long row on the floor.
You didn't realize that you were taking something that you had no right to when you took those 'clouds' for the doll house, did you, Mary Jane?
And they made new dresses for all the dolls; and straightened the drawers of all the doll dressers and--well, they did every single thing that Mary Jane could think of or Aunt Effie could plan.
All the way back home Mary Jane sat very still and held the new doll close up to her.
She walked up close to the counter; looked hard at the dolland then exclaimed, "It is!
For I had made her a respectable, orderly dollto take the place of the ungainly fetich out on the barren.
Baumgartner in his Life of Goethe asserts that Sterne’s Sentimental Journey was one of the books found inside the ridiculous doll which the love-sick Prince Oronaro took about with him.
Well," said her mother, "you could at least make the girl a rag-doll like those you made for the orphans last winter.
Then there was a grand waxdoll with real hair which hung in curls, and lips slightly open showing four tiny white teeth.
This delightfuldoll was quite a wonder in those days.
They were playing that the wax doll was sick and they were Doctor and Nurse.
Dearest of all was a doll her mother made for her, of white cloth with a face painted on it, and head of hair made of what used to be called a "false front.
She resolved to bring her doll out here, and she thought she should never be lonely again if she could only find a peep-hole in that glass roof and look down into the garden; so she was always looking for one.
It is a doll who repeats its lesson, holding itself up to be seen.
Why, Doll and I love for a week, and then forget each other's names in a twelvemonth, when Poll comes along, and so on.
Like a child, she loves any one who will show her the 'works' of existence, and she is still in that inquisitive stage when one imagines that the inside of a doll will afford explanation of its fascinating exterior.
Sylvia regarding her own doll could not help feeling that this was a most inappropriate name for her father; she wondered why her mother called him that and decided finally that it must be because he was shorter than she was.
So she withdrew to a darker corner of the room and played with the doll she had bought, listening to the conversation between her parents.
I thence home to the Rose, and then had Doll Lane venir para me.
As for baggage: Mrs. Kean is a dressy soul, but she only carries a doll trunk which holds all of her little frocks and fixings and even leaves a tiny tray for my belongings.
I know Julia will want to get at her doll trunk and change her traveling dress, but, if you will permit me, I shall stay down here with you.
Star took the doll in her arms with delighted awe, and seemed for a few moments absorbed in her new treasure.
There, sitting in the corner, was Mrs. Neptune, the doll which Captain January had carved out of a piece of fine wood that had drifted ashore after a storm.
She glanced at Bob and the Captain, and seeing that they were both engaged in busy talk, she quietly went up to her own room, carrying the doll with her.
The reason it is your voice is because you gave me my first doll and what is a little girl's life without a doll?
She has never seen a doll house, never a real doll, only pictures.
Do not think that I am unhappy or lonely; nor must you think that while you have been moving along in years, I have remained the same little girl whose doll house you disturbed.
Just at sundown as they were riding by Litman's old field, John's horse shied and backed through the pawpaw bushes into Jeanne's doll house.
In impressions which I wrote when the memory of the incident was vivid in my mind, I said that, to me, this shabby little rag doll typified Belgium.
Nor do I know how a child's doll came to be in that harried, uptorn place.
But, Teddy," she demanded, "how am I going to get my doll again?
She pointed to the black, wooden pot of laths--the one she had thrust her rag doll into.
You don't want any doll when you come crabbing," Teddy answered.
How you going to get my doll out so he doesn't pinch you?
I was showing William how the lobsters went into the traps," Janet explained, "and I made believe my rag doll was a crawling lobster and I stuck her in the net hole.
This afternoon maybe Mr. Keller will find his keys," said Janet, as she got out her doll with the shoe-button eyes.
And when you stuck thedoll in, the lobster thought it was something good to eat, I guess, and grabbed it.
Something in one of the pots grabbed my doll away from me!
Remember the doll in 'Ole Luckoie;' she could speak, and had a fine wedding.
And I believe that if I should love my doll dearly she might get alive; and I am sure I shall love her very dearly!
Mamma told me once of a man in Greece, called Pygmalion, who made a marble doll for himself, and loved it so dearly that it grew warm and came to life.
Have you not a doll somewhere that I can pack with it?
And I'll tell you what, when my brother comes back he must bring you a boy doll with a hat and waistcoat, and then he shall marry my doll.
Just look how straight my doll can sit, all alone, without anything to lean against!
Angelika had received that very day from her brother the crying doll that she had thought he meant to bring her upon his return.
Why was the little Angelika so distinct in her memory,--the little girl rocking in her arms the dollthat her brother had sent her, in the sure hope that her tenderness would inspire it with life?
I feel quite sure that Angelica did not know thedoll was there," Lord Dawne said when the twins had gone.
Her only hope was that he would hide her somewhere so that she should have time to escape before sunrise; for after sunrise all her powers of moving or speaking would desert her and she would be nothing but a wax doll again.
In front of her lay the most beautiful wax doll any little girl of eight years old has ever possessed.
When he came to the lawn he stopped and stared with amazement; for there, in the moonlight, lay the large white stone under which he had hidden the doll from Fairyland.
I thought you would be glad to see her again," said Prince Perfection, and he handed her the doll from Fairyland.
I took her doll away, you see, and it is my fault that Pansy is so unhappy.
It was in vain that the Prince offered to give her his five hundred and fifty-four birthday presents if she would only stop crying: the Princess wanted her doll from Fairyland, and nothing but her doll from Fairyland would console her.
The palace seemed a different place to her, now that it contained the doll that had come from Fairyland; and she immediately named her the Lady Emmelina, which was the most important name she could remember on the spur of the moment.
However that may be, the children have never had an unhappy moment since Prince Perfection went out into the world to find the doll that came straight from Fairyland.
From that day the Princess and her dollwere never separated.
Looking round the room it spied out the doll house, with the dolls and pretty furniture in it, and thought it could play with them just as before.
The head of a rubber doll would also answer the purpose.
You find dolls upon it, but it is not a doll tree.
Miss Celia, seeing that the boys liked it though Betty was absorbed with the dolland Bab deep in a puzzle.
As a child she peopled this world with dolls, and each doll had an individuality, a history, and a set of ideas attached to it, which gave her almost a human companionship in it.
