[The Palace Beautiful by L. T. Meade]@TWC D-Link bookThe Palace Beautiful CHAPTER XLV 3/21
He repeated his injunctions to give Daisy plenty of milk, and to see that she took her tonic three times a day; and then he took his leave. When he was gone Hannah went to her next-door neighbor and asked her if she would be so very kind as to go and sit in the child's room for a couple of hours.
Then she put on her bonnet and neat black cloak, and started off on foot to Rosebury.
She had made up her mind to get Mrs.Ellsworthy's address from some one, and to write to her about Daisy.
In due time she arrived at the lodge, saw the woman who kept the gates, obtained from her without much difficulty Mrs.Ellsworthy's address, and then prepared to return home.
Just as she reached the stile, however, which led into the field where she had found Daisy, a thought struck her--she had no writing-paper in the house, and what could be bought at Teckford was almost too bad to use.
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