[Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Susan Warner]@TWC D-Link bookMelbourne House, Volume 2 CHAPTER V 30/40
Dr.Sandford, because in the beginning--when God had made everything--the Bible says he saw that it was all good." "Daisy, how came you to be such a lover of the Bible ?" Daisy did not speak at once, and when she did it was a departure from the subject. "Dr.Sandford, I felt a drop of rain on my face!" "And here is another," said the doctor getting up.
"This is what I have expected all day.
Come, Daisy--you must be off in your chaise-a-porteurs without delay." "But Nora, and Ella, and the boys!--they are away off on the lake." "They will scuttle home now," said the doctor, "but I have nothing to do with them.
You are my business, Daisy." Accordingly he carried her back to the lunching place, not indeed in his arms, but with a strong hand that made her progress over the stones and moss very rapid, and that gave her a great flying leap whenever occasion was, over any obstacle that happened to be in the way.
There was need enough for haste.
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