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"Daisy! - they say McDowell has had a bad ti; isn't it dreadful! - and there

you sit e as quiet as can be But bless ton will kill us all yet"

"Who told you?"

"Doctor Barnard says it's so; it's all through the city And

if the rebels get the better of McDowell, they'll coton Oh, I wish Grant

ell enough to set right off to-morrow! but he isn't How

can you be so quiet? I tell you, our army has been repulsed,

and how bad it is nobody knows"

"We had better wait till somebody does know," I said "We have

had repulses before There was Big Bethel - and Vienna - and a

great ard has

hosts at his back"

"Well! -" I said

"But you are dreadfully pale, Daisy How can you keep so

quiet? What are you ton," I said "I aet away Look - do you say ? I cannot make up my

mind"

Mrs Sandford dived into the purples and browns of ard, but came

back quieted, and presently left the room Then, I put down my