"
"Well, I'll tell you," said Daisy.
"Just do."
"Ransom, you know who the Lord Jesus Christ is."
"I used to; but I have forgotten."
"Oh Ransom!"
"Come, go ahead, and don't palaver."
"I am his servant," said Daisy; "and he has bid me do to other people
what I would like to have them do to me."
"He has bid you! What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean. It is in the Bible."
"What's in the Bible?"
"_That_;--that I must do to other people what I would like to have them
do to me."
"And I suppose you thought I wouldn't like to have you tell? Well you're
out, for I don't care a shot about it--there! and you may tell just as
fast as you're a mind to."
"Oh Ransom! you know--"
"What do I know?"
"It's no matter," said little Daisy checking herself.
"Go ahead, and finish! What is the use of breaking off? That's the way
with girls;--they don't know how to speak English. You may just as well
say the whole of something ugly, as the half of it."
If Daisy was tempted to comply with the request, she did not give way to
the temptation; for she was silent; and in a mood less pleasant than her
own apparently, Ransom took himself out of her presence.
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