"
I knew it very well. I said nothing.
"And you cannot, just yet, go out of the world."
It was no use to tell Dr. Sandford what I thought. I was
silent still.
"Daisy," said he, "you are worse than you used to be." And I
heard a little concern in his words, only half hid by the
tone.
"You do not suppose that such words as those you quoted just
now, were meant to be a practical guide in the daily affairs
of life? Do you ?"
"How can I help it, Dr. Sandford?" I answered. "I would like
to have my friends among those whom the King will call His
sisters and brothers."
"And what do you think of correct grammar, and clean hands?"
he asked.
"Clean hands!" I echoed.
"You like them," he said smiling. "The people you mean often
go without them — if report says true."
"Not the people _I_ mean," I said.
"And education, Daisy; and refined manners; and cultivated
tastes; what will you do without all these? In the society you
speak of they are seldom found."
"You do not know the society I speak of, Dr.
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