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"Did Nora Dinwiddie put that scheme in your head?" asked Mrs.
Randolph.
"She didn't like it at all, mamma. I put it into her head."
"Where did you get it?"
Daisy looked troubled and puzzled, and did not answer till her
father said "Speak." Then, nestling up to him with her head on
his breast, a favourite position, she said, "I got it from
different sources, I think, papa."
"Let us hear, for instance."
"I think, partly from the Bible, papa — and partly from what
we were talking of yesterday."
"I wish you would show me where you found it in the Bible. I
don't remember a strawberry feast there."
"Do you mean it in earnest, papa?"
"Yes."
Daisy walked off for a Bible — not her own — and after some
trouble found a place which she showed her father; and he read
aloud, "When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy
friends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich
neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be
made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the
maimed, the lame, the blind; and thou shalt be blessed; for
they cannot recompense thee; for thou shalt be recompensed at
the resurrection of the just." Mr.
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