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Hephzibah shook her head in a manner the reverse of encouraging. "Did you never read the Bible, nor have any one read it to you?" Another shake. Daisy thereupon began to tell her little neighbour the grand story which concerned them both so nearly, making it as clear and simple as she could.
The doctor went, leaving Daisy in a very refreshed state; with plenty to think of. Daisy was quite waked out of her weariness and disappointment, and could do well enough without books for one day longer. She took her own raspberries now with great spirit. "I have found two more wonderful things to talk to Dr. Sandford about, Juanita; that is three to-day."
Daisy and Preston had breakfasted already, before the family; and now were off to the hills just as other people were stirring sugar into cups of coffee. Preston led the way on a fine bay of his uncle's; taking good gallops now and then to ease his own and his horse's spirits, and returning to go quietly for a space by the side of the pony-chaise.
"If I thought he would not be with you to-morrow I would stay, though to do so would greatly disappoint my Aunt Lucy," he said to Daisy, who was unselfish enough to bid him go, though she knew how she should miss him, and fell intuitively that twenty Neils could not fill his place. "I cannot ask you to stay longer.
"Yes, try!" he said gently. "You won't find it so very difficult." She turned back to the gate, and leaned wearily upon it. "You are very kind. You always have been. I couldn't tell any one else not even Daisy. You see, she is his friend. But you are different. I don't think you like him, do you?" Grange hesitated a little. "I won't go so far as to say that," he said finally. "We get on all right.
It is impossible that the perpetrator of such deeds, however nomad he may be in his habits " "Now I wonder what 'nomad' can be?" Daisy interrupted herself, and looked round at her little audience. "I've always declared the fellow had all his senses about him," observed Bunting confidently.
But the minute he comes in that poor young chap is set upon mostly, I admit, by your father," she looked at her husband severely. "But you does your share, too, Daisy! You asks him this, you asks him that he's fair puzzled sometimes. It don't do to be so inquisitive." And perhaps because of this little sermon on Mrs.
I would not have a man ask me for you, Daisy, who did not in his heart think he was worthy of you." "Papa, you draw nice distinctions," I said half laughing. "That would be simple presumption, not modesty; this is manliness." We were both silent upon this; papa considering the letter, or its proposal; I thinking of Mr.
If it were not for these orders, the Onondagas would be my friends, and because of that, your friends. It has always been like this; I have built up that others might tear down. I thought for a few hours that something else was to come to me. I should have known better. It was when you took the daisy " she raised her hand and touched the withered flower. "I did not reason.
Lunch went on methodically, until each of the seven courses was left in fragments and the fruit was merely a toy, to be peeled and sliced as a child destroys a daisy, petal by petal. The food served as an extinguisher upon any faint flame of the human spirit that might survive the midday heat, but Susan sat in her room afterwards, turning over and over the delightful fact that Mr.
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