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"Mamma," I said, - "if you put it so, I have known it of ine it!" said racefully slight

"I to look at Daisy!"

"My dear," said papa, "pray do not fail to ree portion of our life a those whom you

denoe of looking at us all I do not recollect that we

felt it any derogation froed to us"

"Did you let hi her

own eyes up to me "It was cruel of you"

"Your friend Miss St Clair, is here, Daisy," my aunt Gary

said

"My friend!" I repeated

"She is your friend," said mamma "She has bound up the wounds

you havein the full

sense a destroyer of human life"

"When did Faustina colad?"

"She was never a particular friend of mine, mamma"

"You will love her now," said mamma; and the conversation

turned It had only filled ue fears I could not

understand it