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The Daisy Chain

CHAPTER XXII
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And what do you think they were ?-- "'Be desirous, my son, to do the will of another rather than thine own.
Choose always to have less rather than more.
Seek always the lowest place, and to be inferior to everyone.
Wish always and pray that the will of God may be wholly fulfilled in thee.' "I liked them the more, because it was just like her last reading with us, and like that letter.

Well, then I wondered as I lay on the grass at Groveswood, whether she would have thought it best for me to be reinstated, and I found out that I should have been rather afraid of what you might say when she had talked it over with you." Dr.May smiled a little at the simplicity with which this last was said, but his smile ended in one of his heavy sighs.

"So you took her for your counsellor, my boy.

That was the way to find out what was right." "Well, there was something in the place and, in watching poor Lake's windows, that made me not able to dwell so much on getting on, and having prizes and scholarships.

I thought that caring for those had been driven out of me, and you know I never felt as if it were my right when I was made dux; but now I find it is all come back.


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