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"Why, Daisy," saidover the last part of my

speech, "how do you know all this? Have you been out into the

great world already?"

"No, papa; but if the little world has such effects what reat one do?"

"Pray, what little world have you seen?"

"The little world of West Point, papa And soton"

"That is not much like a European court," said my father "How

did you like West Point?"

"Very o to balls there?"

"Oh, no, sir! only little hops, that the cadets have in the

evenings"

"Was Preston there then?"

"He was entering upon his last year at the Acadeht he had not"

My father s friends of ours do you

like the best, Daisy?"

"Mr Marshall and Mr De Saussure, do youin papa's tone made my answer, I was conscious, a

little constrained I was very sorry, and could not help it

"Papa - I think - Don't you think, Mr Marshall has the most

principle?"