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shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.' It says, 'in the end of this world'--did you know this world would come to an end, June?" "Yes, Miss Daisy--" "When will it be, June?" "I don't know, Miss Daisy." "There won't be anybody alive that is alive now, will there?" Again unwillingly the answer came: "Yes, ma'am. Miss Daisy, hadn't you better--" "How do you know, June?" "I have heard so--it's in the Bible--it will be when the Lord comes." "Do you like to think of it, June?" The child's searching eyes were upon her. The woman half laughed, half answered, and turning aside, broke down and burst into tears. "What's the matter, June?" said Daisy, coming nearer and speaking awedly; for it was startling to see that stony face give way to anything but its habitual formal smile. But the woman recovered herself almost immediately, and answered as usual: "It's nothing, Miss Daisy." She always spoke as if everything about her was "nothing" to everybody else. "But, June," said Daisy tenderly, "why do you feel bad about it?" "I shouldn't, I s'pose," said the woman desperately, answering because she was obliged to answer; "I hain't no right to feel so--if I felt ready." "How can one be ready, June? that is what I want to know. Aren't you ready?" "Do, don't, Miss Daisy!--the Lord have mercy upon us!" said June under her breath, wrought up to great excitement, and unable to bear the look of the child's soft grey eyes. "Why don't ye ask your papa about them things? he can tell ye." Alas, Daisy's lips were sealed. Not to father or mother would she apply with any second question on this subject. And now she must not ask Mr. Dinwiddie. She went to bed, turning the matter all over and over in her little head. CHAPTER II. For some days after this time, Mrs. Randolph fancied that her little daughter was less lively than usual; she "moped," her mother said. Daisy was not moping, but it was true she had been little seen or heard; and then it was generally sitting with a book in the Belvidere or on a bank under a rose-bush, or going out or coming in with a book under her arm. Mrs. Randolph did not know that this book was almost always the Bible, and Daisy had taken a little pains that she should not know, guessing somehow that it would not be good for her studies. But her mother thought Daisy was drooping; and Daisy had been a delicate child, and the doctor had told them to turn her o
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