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CHAPTER III. HULDAH AND CHARLOTTE. T T I LA was late at breakfast
the next morning. - -- Before she came down, she was the subject of
conversation at the table. Dorothy opened it by saying: " I never
in all my life see such a child; never. Why she's no more like
other girls than black is like white. Now there's Emmy Price;
before she was four years old, she made a shirt for her father, and
now she's got two pieces of patch-work ready for quiltin'. Her
mother was showin' 'em to me the other day. She is the blessedest
child. She'll go straight to Heaven, sartain, one o' these days." "
I'm afraid she is too good to live, judging from your accounts,"
said Mr. Dart, smiling. He was used to Dorothy's praise of her
favorite. It was no uncommon topic with her. " Yes," replied she,
taking the gentleman wholly in earnest. " You jest ought to hear
her quote Scripter once. Two hundred and seventy-nine verses she
knows by heart, and catechism aint nothin' to her. Why, she rattles
off sanctification, justification, and all o' them, as ef 'twas
ABC; and as to John Rogers, she knows every word that's in the
primer." " She is certainly a remarkable child," said Mr. Dart. "Do
you think she comprehends anything of the meaning of all these
words she has learned by rote?" " Well," answered Dorothy, a little
taken aback by this quiet question, " that's nothing, here nor
there. It's a ' form of sound words' that I hold to. Plant the
cardinal doctrines while they are young, and they'll spring up and
grow in due time." " That is true, under the proper conditions,"
was the answer. Dorothy did not hear it; she went on: "But Hily;
now it's impossible to plant anything in her mind. She's up and off
before a body can get at her to say a word. Ef I try it, I have to
let fly ove...
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