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Melbourne House, Volume 2

CHAPTER II
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I would like to have them here on the bed." "What things, Miss Daisy ?" "I would like my bird of paradise first.

You can put a big book here for it to stand on, where it will be steady." The bird of paradise June brought, and placed as ordered.

It was a bird of spun glass only, but a great beauty in Daisy's eyes.

Its tail was of such fine threads of glass that it waved with the least breath.
"How pretty it is! You may take it away, June, for I am afraid it will get broken; and now bring me my Chinese puzzle, and set my cathedral here.

You can bring it here without hurting it, can't you ?" "Where is your puzzle, Miss Daisy ?" "It is in the upper drawer of my cabinet," (so Daisy called a small chest of drawers which held her varieties) "and the cathedral stands on the top, under the glass shade.


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