54 THE DOLL AND HER FRIENDS.

know you’ve been after Something’ you ought to
have let alone.”

“ Hee haw, hee haw,” said Geoffrey, twitching
her gown, and braying like a donkey.

“ Well; you're Speaking in your own voice at
last,” said she, laughing. “ But let go of my
gown, if you please » you are big enough to walk
by yourself, and I want to set the room to rights.

here’s some young: ladies coming to tea with Miss
Rose.”

She bustled about, dusting and putting every
thing in order, and talking: all the time, partly to
Geoffrey and partly to herself, about the blacks
that came in at the windows, and made a place
want dusting a dozen times a-day, when her eye
fell on my unfortunate figure, which my persecutor
had just set Swinging like the pendulum of a clock.

was a deplorable object. He had forced me
into the most awkward attitude he could invent.
My arms were turned round in their sockets,
one stretched towards the ceiling, the other at full
length on one side. I was forced to kick one leg
out in front, and the other behind; and my knees
were bent up the Wrong way. My wie had fallen
off altogether from my head, and was now perched
upon my toe. I was stil] swinging, when Sarah
caught sight of me. She looked at me for a mo-