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Melbourne House, Volume 2

CHAPTER III
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Daisy pondered all manner of impossible places.

At last fixed upon a spot of the floor covered by an ottoman.

The ottoman was hollow and not very heavy, and never moved after the room was put in order every day.

Till the room was put in order Daisy hid her Bible in a drawer; then took it out and consigned it to the obscurity of the ottoman.
She was greatly afraid, then, of being found reading it.

She had not heard the words which passed between the doctor and her mother; only the word "Bible;" but the low tones made her well enough aware that the matter of their talk was somehow adverse; it boded nothing kindly to her and the Bible.


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