[Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Susan Warner]@TWC D-Link bookMelbourne House, Volume 2 CHAPTER II 9/17
I allow you to do what you like with your things in general; this was much fitter for your aunt Gary than for you.
It was something beyond your appreciation.
Do not oblige me to remind you that your things are mine." Mrs.Randolph spoke as if half displeased already, and left the room. Daisy lay with a great flush upon her face, and in a state of perturbation. Her spoon was gone; that was beyond question, and Daisy's little spirit was in tumultuous disturbance--very uncommon indeed with her.
Grief, and the sense of wrong, and the feeling of anger strove together.
Did she not appreciate her old spoon? when every leaf of the lotus carving and every marking of the duck's bill had been noted and studied over and over, with a wondering regard to the dark hands that so many, many years and ages ago had fashioned it.
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