Papa says we elder ones are to read it.

It is a description of us all, and very much indeed we ought to learn from it.

I shall keep a copy of it." Flora took up her work, and began to consult with Richard, while Ethel moved to Norman's side, and kneeling so as to lean against his shoulder, as he sat on a low cushion, they read their mother's last letter by the fire-light, with indescribable feelings, as they went through the subjects that had lately occupied them, related by her who would never be among them again.

After much of this kind, for her letters to Mrs.
Arnott were almost journals, came, "You say it is long since you had a portrait gallery of the chicken daisies, and if I do not write in these leisure days, you will hardly get it after I am in the midst of business again.

The new Daisy is like Margaret at the same age--may she continue like her! Pretty creature, she can hardly be more charming than at present.