" Miss Pinshon was the most
immovable person, I think, I have ever known. At least, so far
as one could judge from the outside.
"She looks to me," my aunt went on, "exactly like a cabbage,
or something else, that has been blanched under a barrel. A
kind of unhealthy colour. She is not strong."
"She has more strength than she shows," my governess answered.
"Daisy has a good deal of strength."
"Do you think so ?" said my aunt, looking doubtfully at me.
But she was comforted. And neither of them asked me about it.
One thing in the early half of the winter was a great help;
and for awhile stayed my flitting spirits and strength. My
father wrote an order, that Daisy should make arrangements for
giving all the people on the plantation a great entertainment
at Christmas. I was to do what I liked and have whatever I
chose too desire; no one altering or interfering with my word.
I shall never forget the overflowing of largest joy, with
which my heart swelled as I ran in to tell this news to aunt
Gary.
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