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o be taken from her, and by my father and mother, and for such a cause? The feeling of grief and wrong and shame got possession of me. I was ready to break my heart in tears; but I could not show Dr. Sandford what I felt, nor confess to what I thought of my father's action. I had the greatest struggle with myself not to give way and cry. I was very weak bodily, but I know I stood still and did not shed a tear; till I felt Dr. Sandford's hands take hold of me. They put me gently back in the chair from which I had risen. "What is the matter, Daisy?" he said. I would not speak, and he did not urge it; but I saw that he watched me till I gained command of myself again. "Shall we go home now?" he asked. "In a minute. Dr. Sandford, I do not think papa knows about all this--I do not think he knows about it as I do. I am sure he does not; and when he knows he will think as I do." "Or perhaps you will think as he does." I was silent. I wondered if that could be possible--if I too could have my eyes blinded as I saw other people's were. "Little Daisy," said my friend the doctor, "but you are getting to be not _little_ Daisy. How old are you?" "I shall be fourteen in June." "Fourteen. Well, it is no wonder that my friend whom I left a philosopher at ten years old, I should find a woman at fourteen; but Daisy, you must not take it on your heart that you have to teach all the ignorant and help all the distressed that come in your way; because simply you cannot do it." I looked up at him. I could not tell him what I thought, because he would not, I feared, understand it. Christ came to do just such work, and His servants must have it on their hearts to do the same. I cannot tell what was in my look, but I thought the doctor's face changed. "One Molly Skelton will do for one four years," he said as he rose up. "Come, Daisy." "But, Dr. Sandford," I said, as I followed him, "you will not do anything about sending Margaret back?" "Nothing, till you do, Daisy." Arrived at home, the doctor made me drink a raw egg, and lie down on Mrs. Sandford's sofa; and he sat down and looked at me. "You are the most troublesome patient that ever I had," said he. "I am?" I exclaimed. "Yes. Quite innocently. You cannot help it, Daisy; and you need not be troubled about it. It is all in the way of my profession. It is as if a delicate vessel of Egyptian glass were put to do the work of an iron smelting furnace; and I
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