`` Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves , or let their money accumulate for others to waste . It 's not half so sensible to leave legacies when one dies as it is to use the money wisely while alive , and enjoy making one 's fellow creatures happy with it . We 'll have a good time ourselves , and add an extra relish to our own pleasure by giving other people a generous taste . Will you be a little Dorcas , going about emptying a big basket of comforts , and filling it up with good deeds ? '' `` With all my heart , if you will be a brave St. Martin , stopping as you ride gallantly through the world to share your cloak with the beggar . '' `` It 's a bargain , and we shall get the best of it ! '' So the young pair shook hands upon it , and then paced happily on again , feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes , believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the flowery path before them , if they smoothed rough ways for other feet , and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they . CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE DAISY AND DEMI I can not feel that I have done my duty as humble historian of the March family , without devoting at least one chapter to the two most precious and important members of it . Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion , for in this fast age babies of three or four assert their rights , and get them , too , which is more than many of their elders do . If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration , it was these prattling Brookes . Of course they were the most remarkable children ever born , as will be shown when I mention that they walked at eight months , talked fluently at twelve months , and at two years they took their places at table , and behaved with a propriety which charmed all beholders . At three , Daisy demanded a ` needler ' , and actually made a bag with four stitches in it . She likewise set up housekeeping in the sideboard , and managed a microscopic cooking stove with a skill that brought tears of pride to Hannah 's eyes , while Demi learned his letters with his grandfather , who invented a new mode of teaching the alphabet by forming letters with his arms and legs , thus uniting gymnastics for head and heels . The boy early developed a mechanical genius which delighted his father and distracted his mother , for he tried to imitate every machine he saw , and kept the nursery in a chaotic condition , with his ` sewinsheen ' , a mysterious structure of string , chairs , clothespins , and spools , for wheels to go ` wound and wound ' . Also a basket hung over the back of a chair , in which he vainly tried to hoist his too confiding sister , who , with feminine devotion , allowed her little head to be bumped till rescued , when the young inventor indignantly remarked , `` Why , Marmar , dat 's my lellywaiter , and me 's trying to pull her up . '' Though utterly unlike in character , the twins got on remarkably well together , and seldom quarreled more than thrice a day . Of course , Demi tyrannized over Daisy , and gallantly defended her from every other aggressor , while Daisy made a galley slave of herself , and adored her brother as the one perfect being in the world . A rosy , chubby , sunshiny little soul was Daisy , who found her way to everybody 's heart , and nestled there . One of the captivating children , who seem made to be kissed and cuddled , adorned and adored like little goddesses , and produced for general approval on all festive occasions . Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human .
It was all fair weather in her world , and every morning she scrambled up to the window in her little nightgown to look out , and say , no matter whether it rained or shone , `` Oh , pitty XXXXX , oh , pitty day ! ''
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