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Title: Daddy's Girl

Author: L. T. Meade

Release Date: October 25, 2009 [EBook #30333]

Language: English

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DADDY'S GIRL

BY L. T. MEADE

Author of "A Very Naughty Girl," "Polly, A New Fashioned
Girl," "Palace Beautiful," "Sweet Girl Graduate,"
"World of Girls," etc., etc.

"Suffer the little children to come unto me."

A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
52-58 DUANE STREET, NEW YORK.

[Illustration: DADDY'S GIRL. _Frontispiece._]

DADDY'S GIRL.

CHAPTER I.

Philip Ogilvie and his pretty wife were quarrelling, as their custom
was, in the drawing-room of the great house in Belgrave Square, but
the Angel in the nursery upstairs knew nothing at all about that. She
was eight years old, and was, at that critical moment when her father
and mother were having words which might embitter all their lives, and
perhaps sever them for ever, unconsciously and happily decorating
herself before the nursery looking-glass.

The occasion was an important one, and the Angel's rosebud lips were
pursed up in her anxiety, and her dark, pretty brows were somewhat
raised, and her very blue eyes were fixed on her own charming little
reflection.

"Shall it be buttercups, or daisies, or both?" thought the Angel to
herself.

A box of wild flowers, which had come up from the country that day,
lay handy. There were violets and primroses, and quantities of
buttercups and daisies, amongst these treasures.

"Mother likes me when I am pretty, father likes me anyhow," she
thought, and then she stood and contemplated herself, and pensively
took up a bunch of daisies and held them against her small, slightly
flushed cheek, and then tried the effect of the buttercups in her
golden brown hair. By-and-by, she skipped away from the looking-glass,
and ran up to a tall, somewhat austere lady, who was seated at a round
table, writing busily.

"What do you want, Sibyl? Don't disturb