human
Rob! Rob! you must not be so boisterous,
gpt
Oh Nell, Nell! cried Rob,
human
I can't,
gpt
Why, Nell, he said,
human
Oh, so I do, papa, exclaimed Nelly;
gpt
I want to go so much that I can't believe it.
human
I really can't talk any more about it. We are not going till the fifteenth of March, but I wish it were to-morrow. After the first two or three weeks, Rob and Nelly lost much of their interest in talking it over; two months ahead seemed to them just as far off as two years; and they did not more than half believe they would ever really go. But when the packing began, all their old interest and enthusiasm returned, and they could not keep quiet a moment. Nelly's great anxiety was to decide whether she would better carry Mrs. Napoleon in her arms all the way or let her go in a trunk. She said to her mother that she really thought Mrs. Napoleon would go safer in her arms than anywhere else.
gpt
You see, mamma, I should never lay her down a single minute, and how could any thing happen to her then? But in the trunk she would be shaken and jolted all the time. The truth was, Nelly was very proud of Mrs. Napoleon, and she secretly had thought to herself,
human
I expect there'll be a great many little girls in the cars: in four whole days, there must be; and they would all like to see such a beautiful doll.
gpt
But, Nelly, she said,