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SCENES' 'LITTLE DOT' ETC. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. MY STRANGE HOME II.

Dot and Mat would then at least have seen a nice boy or two occasionally, and in time got married as they deserved to be, and thus escape from this little provincial theatre of Sidon.

Who could look at Dot and think that anything short of a miraclea miracle like Esther's own meeting with Mikewas going to find her a worthy mate in Sidon; and, suppose the miracle happened once more in her case, what of Mat and all the rest?

One evening, as they were all three sitting cosily in Henry's study,as they still faithfully called it,Esther was reading "Pride and Prejudice" aloud, while Dot and Mat busied themselves respectively with "macramé" work and a tea-cosy against a coming bazaar.

To Dot and Mat fell much more arduous and manual spheres of labour.

Well, on this particular evening, she was, as we have said, taking her share in the housework by reading "Jane Austen" aloud to Dot and Mat; when the door suddenly opened, and James Mesurier stood there, a little aloof,for it was seldom he entered this room, which perhaps had for him a certain painful association of his son's rebellion.

" So Dot, wondering what was in store for her, rose and accompanied her father to the front parlour, where Mrs. Mesurier was peacefully knitting in the lamplight.

Trotter was the local Baptist minister, and Dot remarked to herself that her father was able to pronounce his name without the smallest suspicion that such a name, as belonging to a minister of divine mysteries, was rather ludicrous, though indeed Baptist ministers seemed always to have names like that!"and he asked me when some of my young ladies were going to join the church.

" "No, father," said Dot, at last.

" "No indeed, father," said Dot, whose nature was pliable and sympathetic, as well as fundamentally religious; "but I'm afraid I haven't thought quite as much about it as I should like to, and, if you don't mind, I should like to have a few days to think it out.

And so, with something of a lump in her throat, Dot returned to the interrupted "Jane Austen.

"What do you think?" said Dot.

" CHAPTER XVII DOT'S DECISION

Now, in thus appealing to Dot, her father had appealed to just the one out of all his children who was least likely to disappoint him.

To Dot and Henry had unmistakably been transmitted the largest share of their father's spirituality.

Dot's, however, was an intermediate case.

Perhaps Esther's commiseration of her sisters' narrow opportunities was, so far as it related to Dot, a little unnecessary, for indeed Dot's ambitions were not social.

Perhaps Esther's commiseration of her sisters' narrow opportunities was, so far as it related to Dot, a little unnecessary, for indeed Dot's ambitions were not social.

In addition to her religious promptings, Dot had lately developed a great sympathy for her father.

" Dot was one of those natures that like to seek, and are liable to take, advice; so, after seeing Henry, she thought she would see what Mr. Trotter had to say; for, in spite of his unfortunate name, Mr. Trotter was a gentle, cultivated mind, and was indeed somewhat incongruously, perhaps in a mild way Jesuitically, circumstanced as a Baptist minister.

Henry and he were great friends on literary matters; and Dot and he had had many talks, greatly helpful to her, on spiritual things.

"I'll do it," said Dot.

So it was that Dot came to be baptised; and, to witness the ceremony, all the Mesuriers assembled at the chapel that Sunday evening,even Henry, who could hardly remember when he used to sit in this still-familiar pew, and scribble love-verses in the back of his hymn-book during the sermon.

Great was the excitement, needless to say, in the Mesurier pew, as little Dot at last came forth from the vestry, and, stealing down into the water, took the minister's out-stretched hands.

Dear little Dot, she had done it!

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