Ellsworthy, and
now and then feebly saying that she wished so very much that the
Prince was there.
Hannah knew all about Mrs. Ellsworthy, and how she had taken the girls
up, and tried to help them, after their mother's death; but who was
the Prince?
Finding that the child continued slightly feverish, and most
unnaturally weak--finding that the dainties she prepared were only
just tasted by the little sufferer--Hannah looked well into her little
store of hardly-earned money, and finding that she had sufficient to
pay him, called in the village doctor.
Of course, with his limited experience, this good man could little
understand Daisy's case. He ordered medicine for her, and plenty of
cooling drinks, and said that he could not find anything very much the
matter, only she was most unnaturally weak.
"It's my thinking, sir," said Hannah, "that this is the kind of
weakness that ends in death. My little lady is all on the pine for
something or some one, and unless she gets what she wants soon she
will die."
Hannah's view of the case was rather puzzling to the doctor, who
stared at her, and considered her from that day forward a very
fanciful woman.
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