I think it is cowardly."
"Insult!" said Preston. "Lose his place! Heavens and earth,
Daisy! are you such a simpleton?"
"You insulted him very badly yesterday. I wondered how he bore
it of you; only Darry is a Christian."
"A fiddlestick!" said Preston impatiently. "He knows he must
bear whatever I choose to give him; and therein he is wiser
than you are."
"Because he is a Christian," said I.
"I don't know whether he is a Christian or not; and it is
nothing to the purpose. I don't care what he is."
"Oh, Preston! he is a good man — he is a servant of God; he
will wear a crown of gold in heaven; — and you have dared to
touch him!"
"Why, hoity toity!" said Preston. "What concern of mine is all
that! All I know is, that he did not do what I ordered him."
"What did you order him?"
"I ordered him not to show you the saddle I had got for you,
till I was there. I was going to surprise you. I am provoked
at him!"
"I am surprised —" I said. But feeling how little I prevailed
with Preston, and being weak in body as well as mind, I could
not keep back the tears.
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