It is a much lovelier way to end than as we do in the dust bin or rag-bag . I wonder if there is a little Heaven anywhere for good dolls ? '' answered Flora , with what looked like a tear on her cheek ; but it was only a drop from the violets sent by the kind Doctor last night . `` I hope so , for I think the souls of little children might miss us if they loved us as dear Midge did , '' whispered Dora , trying to kiss the blue flower in her hand , for the child had shared her last gift with these friends . `` Why did n't you let her take them along , poor motherless baby ? '' asked the doctor when he saw the dolls lying as she had left them . `` I promised her they should go to the girl they were sent to , and please , I 'd like to keep my word to the little darling , '' answered Nurse with a sob . `` You shall , '' said the Doctor , and put them in his breast pocket with the faded violets , for everybody loved the pauper child sent to die in a hospital , because Christian charity makes every man and woman father and mother to these little ones . All day the dolls went about in the busy Doctor 's pocket , and I think the violets did them good , for the soft perfume clung to them long afterward like the memory of a lovely life , as short and sweet as that of the flowers . In the evening they were folded up in a fresh paper and re-directed carefully . The Doctor wrote a little note telling why he had kept them , and was just about to put on some stamps when a friend came in who was going to Boston in the morning . `` Anything to take along , Fred ? '' asked the newcomer . `` This parcel , if you will . 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 XXXXX , sister .
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