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"Daisy! you are - what is the uardian exclaimed anxiously, as he came back

to my side with one of the Garibaldi flower bunches

"I am well - you are mistaken, Dr Sandford," I made myself

say quietly

"For which side are you so anxious?" he inquired "You are

paler than you ought to be, at this ot this for you - will you scorn it, or value

it?"

"You would not waste it upon ht I would scorn

it?" I said

"I don't know I am not infatuated about anybody You may have

the bouquet, Daisy Will you have it?"

I did not want to have it! I was not a; this was not an interesting

little bit of greens to me, but a handful of pain I held it,

as one holds such handfuls; till the regiment, which had

halted a little while at Willard's, was ordered forward and

took the turning froinia With that, the whole regiravetheir advance into the quarter of

the eneot Dr Sandford then,

whose watchful eyes I generally remembered; I ceased to see

the houses or the people before rew dim with

tears it was i but that mellow, ominous, sweet, bitter, strain, till

the sound faded away in the distance Then I found that