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My room was at the back of the house Consequently I heard and

saw nothing of the outer world till I came down to the

breakfast-room Nobody was there yet, and I went to the

The first thing I saw then athered just before the , on the sidewalk

In the ay now, stood talking to a little crowd of listeners;

talking in a pouring rain, which nobody seeht uniforled; he

had no musket; and his tasseled cap sat on a head which in

every line and race So they

all listened who stood around; I read it as well as if I had

heard the words they were hearing I saw dejection, profound

sorrow, absorbed attention, utter forgetfulness of present

bodily discomfort I noticed that one man who carried an

u in the rain

Occasionally the soldier raised his aresture; and then ain and staid hi up the sash to ask what it

all was; and then I thought, what h, But I could notme there came and looked over my

shoulder I did not know it, till I heard her "Good Heavens! - Daisy, my dear, what is theaway from the

"But what is it?" - And Mrs Sandford first took my place, and

then did what I had been tempted to do; - threw up the sash

"What is the matter?" she said "Is there news Men, is there