Melbourne House, Volume 2

fter breakfast and after receiving visits from everybody in the house, she was left to her own de

he was a particular little body, and very fond of her room and its furniture and arrangements. Then cam

the second drawer from the top, and put your hand back

rummaged. "Don't feel

June, under

away as though you didn't mean

that she could see better; the intent eyes; the wise little mouth, where childish innocence and oldish prudence made a queer meeting; the slim little fingers that held the book; above all, the sweet calm of the face. June would not gaze, but she looked and looked, as she could, by glances;

d things. I would like to

ings, Mi

t. You can put a big book here for it

rd of spun glass only, but a great beauty in Daisy's eyes. Its tail w

will get broken; and now bring me my Chinese puzzle, and set my ca

our puzzle,

ll chest of drawers which held her varieties) "and the cathedral

in its exact place and size, according to the scale of the model; and a beautiful thing it was to look upon for any eyes that loved beauty. Daisy's eyes loved it well, and now for a long time she lay back on her pillow watching and studying the li

ustr

that, Mis

g like a spoon at one end; it is quite brown. Look for it in the nex

like it in this dr

It is wrapped

ped in paper," sai

ere? and my Indian can

Daisy, all

too, then; it was with the

here, Mi

all the other

f raised herself up for a fright

thing to my drawers w

aisy, not a

look in them a

here, Mi

wn again and

mamma in

Miss D

I want to speak

andolp

do you know anything a

want it,

une cannot find it. Do

let your aunt Gary have it. She wanted it for her collecti

ould not have it. She asked me, an

mething else will give you more pleas

was mine. It b

h your things in general; this was much fitter for your aunt Gary than for you. It was som

y, and left the room. Daisy lay with a great flu

llow, with a slow tear now and then gathering in her eyes, but also with an ominous line on her brow. There was a great sense of injustice at work-the feeling that she had been robbed; and that she was powerless to right herself. Her mother had done it; in her secret thought Daisy knew that, and that she would not have done it to Ransom. Yet in the deep fixed habit of obedience and awe of her mother, Daisy sheered off from directly blaming her as much as possible, and let the burden of her displeasure fall on Mrs. Gary. She was bitterly hurt at her mother's action, however; doubly hurt, at the loss and at the manner of it; and the slow tears ke

rd came in, fresh from his morning's

to go down st

r; I th

r? Are you of a misant

Sandford; I do not

o human society and fellowship

not enjoy

stairs, you will have to

s,

er and looked hard in her face. The wet spot in her pil

e, and give

ry well tel

ot want to go

Sandford, I

e. "I thought you

aw that there was some uncommon disturbance on

mes looking at her, and as often looking somewhere else. It was very agreeable to Daisy; she did not stir her head from under the hand; and gradually she quieted

"what was the matter? Shall I ta

se. Please do not, Dr.

not

ss what to make of this. "Do you mean that you want to be mor

hair to her neat little slippers; it was all white and clean. But the inward adorning which God looked at-in what a state was that? Daisy felt a double pang; that Dr. Sandford should so far mistak

you their private affairs, o

the doctor, withou

I am not good. I am dressed well e

rprised; for Daisy looked as meek as a lamb

e you have had

Daisy, but without l

one has a right to be an

ry," said the child, foldin

going to he

a way, Dr.

ere about a journey of three hundred years to the sun. When I am angry I never find t

d thinking how terrible it must be to h

how do you make o

erstood, and she would be laughed at-not openly, for Dr. Sandford was never impolite; but yet she shr

confidential position

sir,

eak

ask him." And tears, that were tears of d

, to begin with, that yo

rning," said Daisy sadly.

feel when yo

el she would be disagreeable to me, and if I spoke

ral," said

t is w

isy. I always feel disa

isagreeable now t

not help smi

se we go d

I am not ready-I would rather not go d

y. I shall not give you a

to the library; kept Da

was to remain in

he said. "There is too

aid Mr. Randolph. "She has been ke

d the society

likes older s

ing," said

hand not Daisy's foot merely but the general management of her, and give us yo

the doctor. A