You know I robbed you a little while ago, and promised to try to find something to make amends.

Now come and see if I have done it.
Preston, fetch that box here." A neat wooden case of some size was brought by Preston, and set at his mother's feet.

Mrs.Gary unlocked it, and went on to take out of its enveloping coverings a very elegant French doll; a real empress Eugenie.
The doll's face was even modelled into some likeness to the beauty she was named after; a diadem sat gracefully on her head, and her robes were a miniature imitation of royalty, but very exquisitely fashioned.
Everybody exclaimed at the perfection of the beautiful toy, except Daisy herself, who stood quite still and quiet looking at it.

Mrs.Gary had not done yet.

The empress had a wardrobe; and such variety and elegance and finish of attire of all sorts rarely falls to the lot of a doll.