Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Susan Warner
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expression. At any rate, Daisy had been safe thus far.
Great preparations were making for the Silver Lake day. Thursday it was to be. Wednesday evening Dr. Sandford was at Melbourne. Daisy was considering the arrangements of a little packed basket of her own. "Are you expecting to have a good time to-morrow, Daisy?" he asked. Daisy smiled as she said yes. "But you will have to keep quiet. I shall not let you run about like the rest." "I can sit quiet and look at the lake," said Daisy; with so absolutely contented a face that the doctor smiled. "But in parties of pleasure, do you know, my friend, it generally happens that people cannot do what they expected to do?" "Then I can do something else," said Daisy, looking very fearless of anything disagreeable. "Will you let your old friend, Nora Dinwiddie, join the party?" "Nora! O is Nora coming?" exclaimed Daisy. "Mrs. Sandford commissioned me to make the enquiry, Mrs. Randolph, whether one more would be too many? Her little relation, Daisy's friend I believe, has returned to her for the rest of the season." "Certainly!" Mrs. Randolph said,--"there was room for everybody." The |
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