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I asked anxiously Dr Sandford's bro grave

"Daisy, I don't know, as you say; but I have lived a the

Northern people in h a customer as ever I wish to have to

deal with"

"But they are not accusto," I said

"I ah"

"Then you think they are as brave as the South? Can they be?"

Dr Sandford laughed at ood deal Nevertheless, I could

not find out what he thought; and I knew, I thought, what he

did not knoell I knew the fiery proud spirit of my

native portion of the people While his banter fell on reen fields where the

troops were parading; on Southern soil; and I saw in

iht

come over those very fields; I saw the unequal contest; I saw

- what happened soon after I sighed as I turned ain

"You are ht you," he said

And I fancied soratification lurked behind the words

"But you are true?" I exclai "True to what? I hope I am

true"

"I mean, you are a true Northerner? you do not sympathise with