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Randolph; "but people can be stiff in ways of their own devising." "Ways that are not in the Bible, papa?" "Well yes." "But papa, it cannot be stiff to do what God says we must do?" "No, of course not," said Mr. Randolph, getting up. He left her, and Daisy sat meditating; then with a glad heart ran off and ordered her pony-chaise.
Every look at her mother's face settled this conviction more and more deeply in Daisy's mind; and she ended by giving up the subject. There was no hope. She could do nothing for any poor person, she was sure, under her mother's permission, beyond carrying soup and jelly in her pony-chaise, and maybe going in to give it.
When Preston came back from attending Mrs. Sandford to her carriage he could find nothing of his little co-worker. Daisy was gone. In all haste, and with a little self-reproach for having forgotten it, she had ordered her pony-chaise; and then examined into the condition of her stores. The sponge-cake was somewhat dry; the sickle pears wanted looking over. Part of them were past ripe.
"I wonder whether I know them?" It was spitefully done but, in respect of tone and manner, done to perfection. The pony-chaise drew up at the door. This was another of the rare occasions in my life on which I acted discreetly. It was necessary for me to say something. I said, "Good morning." Nothing had happened at the cottage, during the interval of my absence.
He knows how to adapt his conversation to the most opposite kind of persons, and I should not be surprised if he becomes a Cardinal before he dies. The arrival of Dr. Ricord was the next event. He was in a basket pony-chaise, driving two ponies not much larger than rats.
Halton drove off in a pony-chaise to her own house; the other ladies retired, and the gentlemen sat down to chat awhile over the hall fire, occasionally sipping a glass of wine-and-water, and finally we all went off to our rooms.
If she allowed the smith to hand her to her pew in church on Sunday, she, nevertheless, smiled sweetly on the baker; and if she took a drive in Farmer Dobson's pony-chaise for her health, yet, Farmer Thomas would sit for hours inside her bar; the truth was, the good widow was perfectly well aware that her snug little free-hold and thriving little trade were quite as great objects of attraction as her delectable self, and acting on the same principle as that old humbug 'Elizabeth, insanely called 'the good Queen Bess, viz: the balancing opposite interests, she drew custom to her house and grist to her mill, without troubling herself as to selection from her numerous admirers, which, besides displeasing the others, would place another in authority over that bar, which, for the last ten years, she had ruled monarch of all she surveyed.
Sandford," said Daisy, "was that what you meant?" "When?" "When you said, if I was a good child?" "It must have been that I meant, I think. I could have said it in no other connection." "The pony-chaise, ma'am, for Miss Randolph " said a servant at the door. "The chaise may go away again, Daisy, I suppose," said Mrs. Sandford. "You will not want it."
The landlord of the 'Bell' will have cut his throat before this, for, you know, he vowed wengeance against us last year, because his wife's pony-chaise was upset, and he swore that we did it." "Oh, but that's a bad job", said the huntsman; "what shall we do?" Tom was soon up, the coach bowled on, and Jonathan and the hounds trotted gently forward till they came to a public-house.
Much marvelling at the arrangement which made a carriage and horses needful to move a rose-bush, Lewis followed, as gently as he could, the progress of his little mistress's pony-chaise; which was much swifter than he liked it; until his marvelling was increased by its turning out of Melbourne grounds and taking a course up the road again. Towards the same place!
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