[Prudy Keeping House by Sophie May]@TWC D-Link bookPrudy Keeping House CHAPTER X 1/8
CHAPTER X. RIDING ON JACK FROST. Fly slept in a little cot beside her hostess's bed.
Mrs.Pragoff, poor lady, reclined half the night on her elbow, watching the child's breathing; but, to her inexpressible relief, nothing happened that was at all alarming.
Fly only waked once in the night, and asked in a drowsy tone, "Have I got a measle ?" But just as Mrs.Pragoff was enjoying a morning nap, a pair of little feet went pricking over the floor, towards the girls' room, but soon returned, and a sweet young voice cried,-- "O, Miss Perdigoff, I can't wake up Dotty!" "Can't wake her, child!" "No'm, I can't; nor Prudy can't: we can't wake up Dotty." Mrs.Pragoff roused at once, with a new cause for alarm. "Why, what does this mean? Did you try hard to wake her ?" "Yes'm; I shaked her." Mrs.Pragoff now remembered, with terror, that there had been a little trouble with Dotty's windpipe.
Could she have choked to death? Rising instantly, she threw on her wrapper, and was hurrying across the passage, when Fly added,-- "'Haps she'll let _you_ wake her; she wouldn't let me 'n' Prudy." "You little mischief, is that what you mean? She won't _let_ you wake her ?" "No'm, she won't," replied artless Fly; "she said she wouldn't be _bovvered_." Mrs.Pragoff went to bed again, laughing at her own folly. Dotty, it seems, was feeling very much like a bitter-sour apple.
It had always been a peculiarity of hers to visit her own sins upon other people.
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