The perfected arrangements and preparations of the last few days had,
she feared, got into her head a little; and when June had done and was
sent away, Daisy kneeled down by her bedside and prayed a good while
that God would help her not to please herself and keep her from caring
about dress and appearance and people's flatteries. And then she got up
and looked very wistfully at some words of the Lord Jesus which Juanita
had shewed her first and which she found marked by Mr. Dinwiddie's
pencil. "The Father hath not left me alone; _for I do always those
things that please him_."
Daisy was beginning to learn, that to please God, is not always to seek
one's own gratification or that of the world. She looked steadily at the
words of that Friend in heaven whom she loved and wished to obey; and
then it seemed to Daisy that she cared nothing at all about anything but
pleasing him.
"Miss Daisy--" said June,--"Miss Nora is come."
Away went Daisy, with a bound, to the dressing-room; and carried Nora
off, as soon as she was unwrapped from her mufflings, to see the
preparations in the library.
"What is all that for?" said Nora.
"O, that is to shew the pictures nicely. They will look a great deal
better than if all the room and the books could be seen behind them."
"Why?"
"I suppose they will look more like pictures. By and by all those lights
on the stand will be lighted. And we shall dress in the library, you
know,--nobody will be in it,--and in the room on the other side of the
hall.
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