The Daisy Chain, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Daisy Chain, Vol. 2 of 2 Mrs. Hoxton say it is all for your sake;´ then, nettled by Margaret´s laugh, ´such a nice occupation for her, poor thing, as if you were Mrs. Hoxton, and had no resource but fancy-work.´ ´You know I am base enough to be so amused,´ said Margaret; ´but, seriously, Ethel dear, I cannot bear to see you so much hurt by it. I did not know you were really grieved.´ ´Grieved! I am ashamed - sickened!´ cried Ethel, vehemently. ´Poor Cocksmoor! As soon as anything is done there, Flora must needs go about implying that we have set some grand work in hand, and want only means -´ ´Stop, Ethel; Flora does not boast.´ ´No, she does not boast. I wish she did! That would be straightforward and simple; but she has too good taste for that - so she does worse - she tells a little, and makes that go a long way, as if she were keeping back a great deal! You don´t know how furious it makes me!´ ´Ethel!´ ´So,´ said Ethel, disregarding, ´she stirs up all Stoneborough to hear what the Miss Mays are doing at Cocksmoor. So the Ladies´ Committee must needs have their finger in! Much they cared for the place when it was wild and neglected! But they go to inspect Cherry and her school - Mrs. Ledwich and all - and, back they come, shocked - no system, no order, the mistress untrained, the school too small, with no apparatus! They all run about in despair, as if we had ever asked them to help us. And so Mrs. Hoxton, who cares for poor children no more than for puppy-dogs, but who can´t live without useless work, and has filled her house as full of it as it can hold, devises a bazaar - a field for her trumpery, and a show-off for all the young ladies; and Flora treats it like an inspiration! Off they trot, to the old Assembly Rooms. I trusted that the smallness of them would have knocked it on the head: but, still worse, Flora´s talking of it makes Mr. Rivers think it our pet scheme; so, what does he do but offer his park, and so we are to have a regular fancy fair, and Cocksmoor school will be founded in vanity and frivolity! But, I believe you like it!´ ´I am not sure of my own feeling,´ said Margaret. ´It has been settled without our interposition, and I have never been able to talk it over calmly with you. Papa does not seem to disapprove. ´No,´ said Ethel. ´He will only laugh, and say it will spare him a great many of Mrs. Hoxton´s nervous attacks. He thinks of it nearly as I do, at the bottom, but I cannot get him to stop it, nor even to say he does not wish Flora to sell.´ ´I did not understand that you really had strong objections,´ said Margaret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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