Daisy's Aunt

Name: Daisy's Aunt
Author: Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)

Aunts -- Fiction; England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction; Socialites -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction

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DAISY'S AUNT

by

E. F. BENSON

Thomas Nelson and Sons
London, Edinburgh, Dublin,
Leeds, and New York
Leipzig: 35-37 Konigstrasse.
Paris: 61 Rue des Saints Peres.

First Published May 1910.

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CONTENTS

  Chapter     I.              7

  Chapter    II.             27

  Chapter   III.             42

  Chapter    IV.             56

  Chapter     V.             70

  Chapter    VI.             79

  Chapter   VII.             95

  Chapter  VIII.            110

  Chapter    IX.            118

  Chapter     X.            147

  Chapter    XI.            165

  Chapter   XII.            182

  Chapter  XIII.            197

  Chapter   XIV.            215

  Chapter    XV.            227

  Chapter   XVI.            240

  Chapter  XVII.            247

  Chapter XVIII.            263

  Chapter   XIX.            277

  Chapter    XX.            286

  Chapter   XXI.            293

  Chapter  XXII.            308

  Chapter XXIII.            320

  Chapter  XXIV.            333

  Chapter   XXV.            344

  Chapter  XXVI.            357

  Chapter XXVII.            365

DAISY'S AUNT.

CHAPTER I.

Daisy Hanbury poked her parasol between the bars of the cage, with the
amiable intention of scratching the tiger's back. The tiger could not be
expected to know this all by himself, and so he savagely bit the end of
it off, with diabolical snarlings. Daisy turned to her cousin with a
glow of sympathetic pleasure.

"What a darling!" she said. "He didn't understand, you see, and was
perfectly furious. And it cost pounds and pounds, and I've spent all my
allowance, and so I can't buy another, and my complexion will go to the
dogs. Let's go there, too; the dingoes are absolutely fascinating.
We'll come back to see these angels fed."

Gladys laughed.

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