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"Not e "I have

spoken - I have let him speak I cannot undo it - I cannot

undo it"

"Well?" said Miss Cardigan, looking anxious

"It was done before I thought of mamma and papa It was all

done - it is done; and I cannot undo it now, even for them"

"My dear, you would not an They may forbid that"

"What then? What har them know

at once how the case stands They would care for your

happiness, Daisy"

Not with a Northerner, a farmer's son, and an officer in the

Northern aran

"What is it you cannot undo, little Daisy?" she said softly, I

suppose seeing me look troubled And she stretched out a kind

hand and took hold of ing things into light and putting things in

black and white; ible and more hard to deal with for

ever after