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I had not seen him now for several weeks; and I never saw him

look better It immediately struck me, that with him well, it

mattered comparatively little whether Mr Thorold and I were

in the saether or not Dr Sandford's clear blue

eye was not to be braved with impunity No more was it to be

shunned But I needed not to shun it I ht The disposal of my affairs, if it was

not in me, it certainly was not in him He met me with a smile

and a look of pleasure; and sat down by ress of my worsted work So ostensibly; but I soon knew

that he atching not my work, but me

"How have these weeks been with Miss Randolph? Dull?"

"No," I said; - "not dull"

"How have they escaped that?"

"There has been too much to interest, Dr Sandford"

"Yet I see you at your Berlin wools Pardon me - but whenever

I see a lady busy with her needle and a bit of canvass, I

always think she is hard up for soain, Daisy I know you have no "

"See how mistaken you are, Dr Sandford"

"In that? Not in that"

"No; but in your notions about wool and canvass"

"They are true!" said the doctor

"Ah, but, don't you know that extremes meet?"