She pulled the wool from his ears, and announced that she should go directly after the church-service on the morrow, and ask the pastor where they could move to, since this place was unendurable.
This plan suited Uncle Titus as well as any other; all he wanted was quiet.

Aunt Ninette, thinking over her plans, went back to her own room.
Dora stood waiting for her aunt in the passage-way.

"Are we really going away, Aunt ?" she asked anxiously.
"Yes, decidedly;" replied Mrs.Ehrenreich, "we shall move on Monday." Poor little Dora! it was a sad trial to her, to have to go away without once having a chance to make the acquaintance of the other family; to go into the beautiful garden, to smell those delicious flowers, and to join the merry child-life that she had watched so closely, and yet from which she was so entirely separated.

Her future seemed swallowed up in those stifling cotton shirts that were her fate in dull Karlsruhe.

As she sat on the side of her little bed, that night, sadly cast down by these melancholy thoughts, she forgot the five friendly stars in the sky above.
Yet there they were, sparkling as ever, as if they were trying to speak to their child and say, "Dora, Dora! have you quite forgotten your father's verses ?".