Melbourne House by Elizabeth Wetherell
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business and pleasure together, till they came out suddenly
upon a little rocky height, where a small spot was shaded with cedars and set with benches around and under them. The view away off over the tops of the trees to other heights and hills in the distance was winningly fair, especially as the sun showed it just now in bright, cool light and shadow. It was getting near sundown. "Look where we are!" cried Nora, "at the Sunday-school!" Daisy seated herself without answering. "I think," went on Nora, as she followed the example, "it is the very prettiest place for a Sunday-school that there ever was." "Have you been in other Sunday-schools?" asked Daisy. "Yes, in two." "What were they like?" "Oh, they were in a church, or in some sort of a room. I like being out-of-doors best; don't you?" "Yes, I think so. But was the school just like this in other things?" "Oh, yes; only once I had a teacher who always asked us what we thought about everything. I didn't like that." |
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