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long table was spread. Dr. Sandford, I saw, was an immense favourite. Questions and demands upon his attention came thick and fast from both ends and all sides of the table; about all sorts of subjects and in all manner of tones, grave and gay. And he was at home to them all, but in the midst of it never forgot me. He took careful heed to my luncheon; prepared one thing, and called for another; it reminded me of a time long gone by; but it did not help me to eat. I could not eat. The last thing he did was to call for a fresh raw egg, and break it into a half glass of milk. With this in his hand we left the dining-room. As soon as we got to Mrs. Sandford's parlour he gave it to me and ordered me to swallow it. I suppose I looked dismayed. "Poor child!" said Mrs. Sandford. "Let me have it beaten up for her, Grant, with some sugar; she can't take it so." "Daisy has done harder things," he said. I saw he expected me to drink it, and so I did, I do not know how. "Thank you," he said smiling, as he took the glass. "Now sit down and I will talk to you." "How she is growing tall, Grant!" said Mrs. Sandford. "Yes," said he. "Did you sleep well, Daisy?" "No, sir; I couldn't sleep. And then I dreamed." "Dreaming is not a proper way of resting. So tired you could not sleep?" "I do not think it was that, Dr. Sandford." "Do you know what it was?" "I think I do," I said, a little unwillingly. "She is getting very much the look of her mother," Mrs. Sandford remarked again. "Don't you see it, Grant?" "I see more than that," he answered. "Daisy, do you think this governess of yours has been a good governess?" I looked wearily out of the window, and cast a weary mental look over the four years of algebraics and philosophy at the bright little child I saw at the further end of them. "I think I have grown dull, Dr. Sandford," I said. He came up behind me, and put his arms round me, taking my hand in his, and spoke in quite a different tone. "Daisy, have you found many 'wonderful things' at Magnolia?" I looked up, I remember, with the eagerness of a heart full of thoughts, in his face; but I could not speak then. "Have you looked through a microscope since you have been there, and made discoveries?" "Not in natural things, Dr. Sandford." "Ha!" said the doctor. "Do you want to go and take a drive with me?" "Oh yes!" "Go and get ready then, please." I had a very pleasant, quiet drive; the
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