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things Mrs Sandford left me with a kiss and the injunction

to take care of et off so, for she

looked a little unsatisfied My as clear now I dressed

with a bounding heart,beneath allall the difficult work I had set ladness was uppermost, as I found myself in the saddle

and aith Mr Thorold by ladness that kept us both still I think;

for we exchanged feords till ere clear of the city and

out upon the open country There we slackened bridle, and I

began to feel that the ly precious I

dreaded lest some words of Christian's should make it

ian, "I have things to talk to you about"

"Well," said he brightly, "you shall Will it take a great

while, Daisy? Because I have things to talk to you about"

"Not a great while, I hope," I said, al But wait till we get a

better place"

I would have liked the place where ere, and the tih than where it was s to ive too exclusive heed to ainsay him; and we rode on, till we careen turf and trees Here Mr

Thorold stopped and proposed that we should disht nity could be more easily maintained on

horseback; but I could not bear to refuse him, and he did not

mean to be refused, I saw He had dis his horse's bridle over the branch of a

tree, carass Then keepinga brilliant

inquisitive look on my face, he asked me, "Daisy - is this my Daisy, as I left her?"