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Melbourne House, Volume 1

CHAPTER XV
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I am going to take Dr.Sandford to see what the foot wants." Mr.Randolph ordered the carriage, and then told his wife.
"Does it storm yet ?" she asked.
"The thunder and lightning are ceasing, but it rains hard." The lady stepped out of the room to get ready, and in a few minutes she and her husband, Capt.

Drummond and the doctor, were seated in the carriage and on their way to Mrs.Benoit's cottage.Capt.Drummond told how the accident happened; after that he was silent; and so were the rest of the party, till the carriage stopped.
Mrs.Benoit's cottage looked oddly, when all these grand people poured into it.

But the mistress of the cottage never looked more like herself, and her reception of the grand people was as simple as that she had given to Daisy.

Little Daisy herself lay just where her friend the Captain had left her, but looked with curious expression at the others who entered with him now.

The father and mother advanced to the head of the couch; the Captain and Juanita stood at the foot.


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