[The Daisy Chain by Charlotte Yonge]@TWC D-Link bookThe Daisy Chain CHAPTER XX 3/41
You know all about schools, don't you? I am come to get some Easter presents for our children, and I am sure you can help me." "Are the children little or big ?" asked Flora. "Oh! all sorts and sizes.
I have some books for the great sensible ones, and some stockings and shoes for the tiresome stupid ones, but there are some dear little pets that I want nice things for.
There--there's a doll that looks just fit for little curly-headed Annie Langley, don't you think so, Mrs.Larpent ?" The price of the doll was a shilling, and there were quickly added to it, boxes of toys, elaborate bead-work pincushions, polished blue and green boxes, the identical writing-case--even a small Noah's ark.
Meta hardly asked the prices, which certainly were not extravagant, since she had nearly twenty articles for little more than a pound. "Papa has given me a benefaction of L5 for my school-gifts," said she, "is not that charming? I wish you would come to the feast.
Now, do! It is on Easter Tuesday.
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