"
"What could they work with besides money?" said Daisy.
"Why, _everything_, Duke says; all they've got; their tongues
and their hands and their feet, and all they know, and all
their love for people; and even the way we do things, our
studies and all, Marmaduke says. What do you want to know for,
Daisy?"
"I was thinking about it," answered Daisy, evasively. "Wait a
minute, Nora, — I want to write it down, for fear I should
forget something."
"What _are_ you going to do?" exclaimed Nora. "Are you going to
teach a class yourself?"
Daisy did not answer, while she was writing down with a pencil
what Nora had said, and making her repeat it for that purpose.
When she had done she looked a little dubiously off towards
the woods, while Nora was surprised and disappointed into
silence.
"I think perhaps I ought to tell you," was Daisy's slow
conclusion. "I want to know what this means, that I may do it,
Nora."
"_Do_ it?"
"Yes," said Daisy, turning her quiet eyes full upon her
companion — "I want to try to please God. I love the Lord
Jesus."
Nora was very much confounded, and looked at Daisy as if a gap
in the ground had suddenly separated them.
"So," Daisy went on, "as I have talents to use, I want to know
what they are, for fear I shouldn't use them all.
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