[The Daisy Chain by Charlotte Yonge]@TWC D-Link bookThe Daisy Chain CHAPTER IX 13/26
Ritchie, you should not come upon us before we are aware." "What? I should have heard no good of myself ?" "Great good," said Margaret--"she was telling me you would make a neat-handed woman of her in time." "I don't see why she should not be as neat as other people," said Richard gravely.
"Has she been telling you our plan ?" And it was again happily discussed; Ethel, satisfied by finding him fully set upon the design, and Margaret giving cordial sympathy and counsel.
When Ethel was called away, Margaret said, "I am so glad you have taken it up, not only for the sake of Cocksmoor, but of Ethel.
It is good for her not to spend her high soul in dreams." "I am afraid she does not know what she undertakes," said Richard. "She does not; but you will keep her from being turned back.
It is just the thing to prevent her energies from running to waste, and her being so much with you, and working under you, is exactly what one would have chosen." "By contraries!" said Richard, smiling.
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