[The Daisy Chain by Charlotte Yonge]@TWC D-Link bookThe Daisy Chain CHAPTER IV 15/17
The little one had waited till she was nearly six weeks old for "a Christening Sunday," and since that had been missed, she could not be kept unbaptized for another month; so, late in the day, she was carried to church. Richard had extremely gratified old nurse, by asking her to represent poor Margaret; Mrs.Hoxton stood for the other godmother, and Alan Ernescliffe was desired to consider himself absolutely her sponsor, not merely a proxy.
The younger children alone were to go with them: it was too far off, and the way lay too much through the town for it to be thought proper for the others to go.
Ethel wished it very much, and thought it nonsense to care whether people looked at her; and in spite of Miss Winter's seeming shocked at her proposing it, had a great mind to persist.
She would even have appealed to her papa, if Flora had not stopped her, exclaiming, "Really, Ethel, I think there never was a person so entirely without consideration as you are." Much abashed, Ethel humbly promised that if she might go into papa's room, she would not say one word about the christening, unless he should begin, and, to her great satisfaction, he presently asked her to read the service to him.
Flora came to the doorway of Margaret's room, and listened; when she had finished, all were silent. "How shall we, how can we virtuously bring up our motherless little sister ?" was the thought with each of the girls.
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