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He did not give her time to look at it, only he held it so that she saw what it was. "You see that spoon, Daisy. It cannot do anything. But in your hand it might carry drops of comfort to somebody's lips." Daisy looked earnestly at the spoon, then at the bright eyes that were fixed on her; and taking his meaning, she smiled, a bright, satisfied smile. It satisfied Mr. Dinwiddie too.
"Has it!" said papa. "Well, what good will that do them?" "Strengthen their hearts for continuing the struggle," said Mr. Dinwiddie. "It will do that." "The struggle cannot last very long," said my father. "They must see sooner or later how hopeless it is." "Not in the light of these last events," said Mr. Dinwiddie. "What does my other friend here think about it?" "About what, Mr. Dinwiddie?"
Her peace, which had seemed indestructible a moment ago, was shattered by a sensation of violent anger not against Abby, not against Oliver, not even against the gossiping old women of Dinwiddie but against her own blindness, her own inconceivable folly! At the moment the civilization of centuries was stripped from her, and she was as simple and as primitive as a female of the jungle.
At the same time orders were sent to Smith's brigade, which, by the advance of Pickett past its right flank and the pressure of W. H. F. Lee on its front, had been compelled to give up Fitzgerald's crossing, to fall back toward Dinwiddie but to contest every inch of ground so as to gain time.
Then, a little later, with the invasion of the cigarette, there went up the new Treadwell factory which the subtle minded still attributed to the genius of Cyrus. Even before George and Henry had sailed for Australia, the success of the house in Dinwiddie was assured.
You can understand from this how grateful I am for the check you sent but, dearest mother, I know that you oughtn't to have done it, and that you sacrificed your own comfort and father's to give it to me. I wish Oliver could get something to do in Dinwiddie. He will never be happy here, and we could live on so much less money at home in a little house near the rectory.
A certain fidelity of purpose, the quality which had lifted him above the petty provincialism that crippled James, made the display of wealth as obnoxious to him as the possession of it was agreeable. As long as he was conscious that he controlled the industrial future of Dinwiddie, it was a matter of indifference to him whether people supposed him to be a millionaire or a pauper.
The retreat of Davies permitted Pickett to pass between Crook and Merritt, which he promptly did, effectually separating them and cutting off both Davies and Devin from the road to Dinwiddie, so that to get to that point they had to retreat across the country to B. Boisseau's and then down the Boydton road.
Dinwiddie what she had, it seemed to Daisy that she had spoken aloud her oath of allegiance; and a growing joy in the transaction and a growing love to the great Saviour who was willing to let her be his servant, filled her little heart. She just knew that the ride home was lovely, but Daisy's mind was travelling a yet more sunshiny road. She was intelligent in what she had done. One by one Mr.
Major Dinwiddie paid his fine, and Steve and I paid him for the moose-meat at the rate of a dollar a pound, bones and all. That was what he paid for it. Meat was high that year. I am only telling what I saw with my own eyes. And now I'll tell you something also. I saw that Spot fall through a water-hole. The ice was three and a half feet thick, and the current sucked him under like a straw.
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