"What part of the Bible do you like best to read, June."
"Miss Daisy, will you wear your white muslin to-day — or the
one with blue spots?"
"White. But tell me, June — which part of the Bible do you
like best?"
"I like where it tells about all they had to go through," —
June answered, rather unwillingly.
"They? — who?"
"The people, Miss Daisy — Christians, I s'pose."
"What did they have to go through?"
"Things, ma'am," said June, very confusedly. "Miss Daisy,
please don't turn your head round."
"But what things? and what for? Where is it, June?"
"I can't tell — I can find it for you, Miss Daisy. But you
won't be ready."
June, however, had to risk that and find the chapter; and then
Daisy read perseveringly all through the rest of her dressing,
till it was finished. All the while June was fastening her
frock, and tying her sash, and lacing her boots, Daisy stood
or sat with the Bible in her hands and her eyes on the
eleventh of Hebrews.
"June, I wonder when all this happened?"
"A great while ago, it's likely, Miss Daisy — but it's good to
read now" — June added, but half distinctly, as it was her
manner often to speak. Daisy was accustomed to her, and heard
it.
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