Let him hear nothing and see nothing — except you,
and some attendant that he is accustomed to."
"Oh, doctor, can't you stay till he is better?"
"I will return again very soon, Mrs. Randolph. There is
nothing to be done at present for which I am needed."
"But you will come back as soon as you can?"
"Certainly!"
"And oh, Dr. Sandford, cannot you take Daisy away?"
"Where is she?"
"I don't know — she is not come home. Do take her away!"
The doctor went thoughtfully downstairs, and checking his
first movement to go out of the front door, turned to the
library. Nobody was there; but he heard voices, and passed out
upon the piazza. Daisy's pony chaise stood at the foot of the
steps; she herself had just alighted. Preston was there too,
and it was his voice the doctor had first heard, in anxious
entreaty.
"Come, Daisy! — it's capital down at the river; and I want to
show you something."
"I think I am tired now, Preston. I'll go another time," said
Daisy.
"Daisy, I want you now. Come! come! — I want you to go now,
this minute."
"But I do not feel like a walk, Preston. I can't go till I
have had my dinner."
Preston looked imploringly at the doctor, towards whom Daisy
was now mounting the steps.
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