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A clean, quiet, airy room, like all the rest; like all the

rest filled with rows of beds, the occupants of which had coht and the bustle of theHow ht; and if it be well done, how much the

nobler And all who know the way in which our boys did it,

will bear witness to their great nobleness Patient, and

strong, and brave, where there was no excitement to cheer, nor

spectators to applaud; their fortitude and their patience and

their generous self-devotion never failed nor faltered, when

all adventitious or real helps and stimulants ithdrawn,

and patriotism and bravery stood alone

From the turn of Dr Sandford's head, I knehich side I

line of beds, I scanned breathlessly each face Old and young,

grih; it was a variety And then I

saw, I should hardly have known it, a pale face with a dark

lossy hair, which was

luxuriant yet, although it had been cropped His eyes were

closed as we came up; opened as we paused by his bed-side, and

opened very wide indeed as he looked fro, Gary?" said my conductor

"Confoundedly -" was the so my face

"You see who has come to look after you?"

"It isn't Daisy!" he cried