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Daisy gave another start and a very gentle sigh. She knew well in her
little breast that no amount of chemical food would take away the
terror which inspired her when she saw the face of Mr. Dove. She had
seen him just now, although Jasmine had not--he was standing with
several other men at the corner of the road, and his blood-shot eyes
had seemed to look through her, and as she passed by he had raised his
hand, and shaken it at her in a truly menacing manner.
Dove had not forgotten Daisy, as Daisy had fondly hoped. Daisy
Mainwaring meant to him a certain amount of money. Dove was not the
sort of man to allow the chance of gaining money dishonestly to go by.
As to earning money, and coming by it as the sweet fruits of honest
toil, that did not at all suit his idea. When he saw the child going
out with her sister he recollected, with much pleasure, that
quarter-day was about due. Feeling in his own pockets, he confessed
they were unpleasantly light and empty, and then he wondered if he
might find any agreeable little pickings in the girls' trunks. He had
subjugated poor little Daisy so completely that he would have ventured
to rob even in her presence, but of course he preferred doing his
burglary work alone.
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