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Melbourne House, Volume 1

CHAPTER XIII
19/23

I will give you what will turn your fancied wrong deed into a good one.

It is certainly right to do charitable things on Sunday." There was silence, and it promised to last some time.

Mr.Randolph would not hurry her: and Daisy was thinking, "If ye love me, keep my commandments." "_If ye love me_"-- "Papa,"-- said she at last, very slowly, and pausing between her words,--"would you be satisfied,--if I should disobey you--for a hundred dollars ?" This time it was Mr.Randolph that did not answer, and the longer he waited the more the answer did not come.

He put Daisy gently off his knee and rose at last without speaking.

Daisy went out upon the verandah and sat down on the step; and there the stars seemed to say to her--"If a man love me, he will keep my words." They were shining very bright; so was that saying to Daisy.


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