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What has happened to you?"

"What do you"What do you ht as well pass off by itself, like

another; and I kept quiet

"What were you doing just now," said he savagely, "by that

soldier's bedside?"

"That soldier? He is a dying man, Preston"

"Let him die!" he cried "What is that to you? You are Daisy

Randolph Do you re a

spectacle of yourself, for a hundred to look at!"

But this shot quite overreached its mark Preston saw it had

not touched ain "You were

delicate to an exquisite fault I would never have believed

that you would have done anything unwomanly What has taken

possession of you?"

"I should like to take possession of you just now, Preston,

and keep you quiet," I said "Look here, - your tea is cos a little better;

and now - let ive you this I am sure Dr Sandford would

bid you be quiet; and in his name, I do"