Daisy by Elizabeth Wetherell
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weary; my mind escaped; and without turning my eyes off my
book, it swept over the distance between Magnolia and Melbourne, and sat down by Molly Skelton to help her in getting her letters. It was done and I was there. I could hear the hesitating utterances; I could see the dull finger tracing its way along the lines. And then would come the reading _to_ Molly, and the interested look of waiting attention, and once in a while the strange softening of the poor hard face. From there my mind went off to the people around me at Magnolia; were there some to be taught here perhaps? and could I get at them? and was there no other way could it be there was no other way but by my weak little voice through which some of them were ever to learn about my dear Saviour? I had got very far from mathematics, and my book fell. I heard Miss Pinshon's voice. "Daisy, come here." I obeyed, and came to the table, where my governess was installed in the leather chair of my grandfather. She always used it. "I should like to know what you are doing." "I was thinking " I said. "Did I give you thinking to do?" "No, ma'am; not of that kind." |
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