There can be no harm in my saying so, for you must know it.

You are told so very often, I am sure.' As a general principle, Dolly DID know it, and WAS told so, very often.
But the coachmaker had turned out, years ago, to be a special donkey; and whether she had been afraid of making similar discoveries in others, or had grown by dint of long custom to be careless of compliments generally, certain it is that although she cried so much, she was better pleased to be told so now, than ever she had been in all her life.
'I shall bless your name,' sobbed the locksmith's little daughter, 'as long as I live.

I shall never hear it spoken without feeling as if my heart would burst.

I shall remember it in my prayers, every night and morning till I die!' 'Will you ?' said Joe, eagerly.

'Will you indeed?
It makes me--well, it makes me very glad and proud to hear you say so.' Dolly still sobbed, and held her handkerchief to her eyes.