"
"Prudy can sew better and faster than I can," said Dotty, with a
sudden gush of humility.
"Why, Dotty Dimple, I don't think so," returned Prudy, quite
surprised.
"Neither do I," said aunt Maria; "I am afraid our little Dotty is
hardly sincere."
Dotty's head drooped a little. "I know it, auntie; I do sew the
nicest; but I was afraid it wouldn't be polite if I told it just as it
was, and Prudy so good to me, too."
"If she is good, is that any reason why you should tell her a wrong
story?" remarked the plain-spoken Susy, giving a twitch to her
tatting-thread.
"Children," said Mrs. Clifford, laughing, "do you remember those
hideous green goggles I wore a year ago?"
"O, yes 'm," replied Grace; "they made your eyes stick out so! Why,
you looked like a frog, ma', more than anything else."
"Well, a certain lady of my acquaintance was so polite as to tell me
my goggles were very becoming."
"O, ma, who could it have been?"
"I prefer not to give you her name. I appreciated her kind wish to
please me, but I could not think her sincere.
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