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when Antoinette first came. “But—ex¬ 
cuse me, Antoinette—I should not think you 
would want to stay.” 
“Why not ?” 
“ Away from your mother and sister all 
winter? I would not leave my mother if 
she were alive, not even for Aunt Louisa ; 
and I shall never be separated from Daisy 
if I can help it.” 
“Mother won’t miss me much,” said 
Antoinette, rather bitterly: “ she is out 
all the time; and Matilda and I are not 
like you and Daisy: we don’t get on together 
at all. If she were not my sister, I should 
not like her at all,—she is so cross.” 
“Oh, Antoinette!” remonstrated Annie, 
greatly shocked,—“your own only sister!” 
“Well, I know it sounds heathenish-” 
“It is heathenish!” interrupted Annie. 
“ ‘ He that loveth not his brother is a mur¬ 
derer.’ ” 
“ Do you think we can love people by 
trying to, Annie ?” 
“I suppose so, of course, or we should 
not be commanded to. But, really, I don’t 
see how you and Matilda can be good 
