I have a feeling that I 'd rather not have it knock about in a mail-bag , '' and the Doctor told him why . It was pleasant to see how carefully the traveller put away the parcel after that , and to hear him say that he was going through Boston to the mountains for his holiday , and would deliver it in Portland to Miss Plum herself . `` Now there is some chance of our getting there , '' said Flora , as they set off next day in a new Russia leather bag . On the way they overheard a long chat between some New York and Boston ladies which impressed them very much . Flora liked to hear the fashionable gossip about clothes and people and art and theatres , but Dora preferred the learned conversation of the young Boston ladies , who seemed to know a little of everything , or think they did . `` I hope Mamma will give me an entirely new wardrobe when I get home ; and we will have dolls ' weddings and balls , and a play , and be as fine and fashionable as those ladies down there , '' said Flora , after listening a while . `` You have got your head full of dressy ideas and high life , sister . I do n't care for such things , but mean to cultivate my mind as fast as I can . That girl says she is in college , and named over more studies than I can count . I do wish we were to stop and see a little of the refined society of Boston , '' answered Dora , primly . `` Pooh ! '' said Flo , `` do n't you try to be intellectual , for you are only a wooden-headed doll . I mean to be a real Westerner , and just enjoy myself as I please , without caring what other folks do or think . Boston is no better than the rest of the world , I guess . '' Groans from every article in the bag greeted this disrespectful speech , and an avalanche of Boston papers fell upon the audacious doll . But Flo was undaunted , and shouted from underneath the pile : `` I do n't care ! Minnesota forever ! '' till her breath gave out . Dora was so mortified that she never said a word till they were let out in a room at the Parker House . Here she admired everything , and read all the evening in a volume of Emerson 's Poems from the bag , for Mr. Mt. Vernon Beacon was a Boston man , and never went anywhere without a wise book or two in his pocket .
Flo turned up her nose at all she saw , and devoted herself to a long XXXXX with the smart bag which came from New York and was full of gossip .
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