[Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Susan Warner]@TWC D-Link bookMelbourne House, Volume 2 CHAPTER VII 36/37
She does it herself." "How _can_ she ?" "I don't know.
Marmaduke says she keeps her house clean too, though she only goes about on her hands and knees." "Nora," said Daisy, "that isn't like the Bible." "What isn't ?" "Don't you remember what the Bible says? that whatever we would like other people to do to us, we should do so to them." "What do you mean, Daisy ?" "I mean just so." "But what isn't like the Bible ?" "Why--to let that poor old woman go without what we would like if we were in her place." "Why Daisy! Molly Skelton! The Bible does not mean that we ought to go and make visits to such horrid people as that." "You said you would like it if you were in her place," observed Daisy, "and I know _I_ should.
I thought so when you told me." "But, Daisy, she is wicked!" "Well, Jesus loves wicked people," said Daisy calmly.
"Maybe she will wear a white robe in heaven, and have a crown of gold upon her head." "Daisy!--she is wicked," exclaimed Nora indignantly.
"Wicked people do not go to heaven." "Yes, but if Jesus gives them his white robe, they do," said Daisy.
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