She had been in the habit of twirling it about her finger, and telling the little girls it was made of real "carrot gold." But just at this moment she didn't care so much about it; and it even seemed to her that Dotty's little hand looked very nice and white without any rings.

Perhaps people had not admired the glitter of her forefinger so very much, after all.

How did she know but they had said, "Look at Judge Vance's little daughter.

Isn't she ashamed to wear that ring when it's a sign her father is rich, and can't go to heaven ?" The child began to wish there would come holes in her father's pockets and let out the money; for she supposed he kept it all in his pockets, of course.
"I shall tell my mother about it," mused she; "and I don't believe but she'll laugh and say, 'That Dotty Dimple is a very queer child.'" But just at this time little Katie began to peep into Jennie's pockets for "candy-seeds" (that is, sugared spices), and to behave in many ways so badly that Miss Prince said she must be taken home.

So the girls led her out between them; and that was the last Jennie thought of the camel.
But Dotty remembered it all the way home..