DOROTHEA 
 
 
  Dorothe'a, the "virgin martyr," attended 
by Angelo, an angel in the semblance of 
a page, first presented to Dorothea as a 
beggar-boy, to whom she gave alms.- 
Philip Massinger, The Virgin    Martyr 
(1622). 
 
  Dorothe'a, the heroine of Goethe's poem 
entitled Hermann and Dorothea (1797). 
 
  Dor'otheus (3 syl.), the man who spent 
all his life in endeavoring to elucidate the 
meaning of one single word in Homer. 
 
  Dor'othy (Old), the housekeeper of 
Simon Glover and his daughter "the fair 
maid of Perth."-Sir. W. Scott, Fair Maid 
of Perth (time, Henry IV.). 
 
  Dor'othy, charwoman of Old Trapbois 
the miser and his daughter Martha.-Sir 
W. Scott, Fortnnes of Nigel (time, James I.). 
 
  Dorothy Pearson. The childless wife 
of a Puritan settler in New England. 
Her husband brings her home a boy whom 
he found crouching under the gallows of 
his Quaker father, and she adopts him at 
once, despite the opposition of "the con- 
gregation." A fortnight after he entered 
the family, his own mother invades the 
pulpit of the Orthodox meeting house,* 
and delivers an anathema against her sect. 
Her boy presses forward to meet her, but, 
after a conflict of emotions she returns 
him to Dorothy. He submits, but pines 
for his mother through the months that 
pass before her return with the news of 
religious toleration. Dorothy's loving 
offices have smoothed the child's pathway 
to the grave, and she hangs above him 
with tears of maternal grief as he breathes 
his last in his mother's arms.-Nathaniel 
Hawthorne, The Gentle Boy (1851.) 
 
  Dorothy Q. Oliver Wendell Holmes's 
 
 
" grandmother's mother."  Her portrait 
taken at the age of "thirteen summers, 
or less," is the subject of his lines, " Dor- 
othy Q. A Family Portrait." 
  "0, Damsel Dorothy! Dorothy Q! 
  Strange is the gift that I owe to you; 
  Such a gift as never a king 
  Save to daughter or son might bring,- 
  All my tenure of heart and hand 
  All my title to house and land, 
  Mother and sister and child and wife 
  And joy and sorrow, and death and life P" 
 
  Dorrilloii (Sir William), a rich Indian 
merchant and a widower. He had one 
daughter, placed under the care of Mr. and 
Miss  Norberry. When     this daughter 
(Maria) was grown to womanhood, Sir 
William returned to England, and wishing 
to learn the character of Maria, presented 
himself under the assumed name of Mr. 
Mandred. He found his daughter a fash- 
ionable young lady, fond of pleasure, 
dress, and play, but affectionate and good- 
hearted. He was enabled to extricate her 
from some money difficulties, won her 
heart, revealed himself as her father, and 
reclaimed her. 
  Miss [Maria] Dorrillon, daughter of Sir 
William ; gay, fashionable, light-heart- 
ed, accomplished, and   very  beautiful. 
"Brought up without a mother's care or 
father's caution," she had some excuse for 
her  waywardness    and  frivolity. Sir 
George Evelyn was her admirer, whom for 
a time she teased to the very top of her 
bent; then she married, loved and re- 
formed.-Mrs. Inchbald, Wives as they 
Were and Maids as they Are (1797). 
 
  D'Osborn    (Count), governor of the 
Giant's Mount Fortress. The countess 
Marie consented to marry him, because 
he promised to obtain the acquittal of 
Ernest de Fridberg, (" the State pris- 
oner"); but he never kept his promise. 
 
 
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