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"Is that all your boasted religion is good for?"

I could not answer Was it? What is the boat which can only

sail in s reproached, and

justly, I was as far froht - with your sort of brightness;

there was not much brilliance to it; but you had a kind of

steady cheerfulness of your own, from a child What has becoone Perhaps it ake up one of

these days"

"I shall die of heartache first It would be the easiest thing

I could do To live here, is to die a long death I feel as if

I could not get a free breath now"

"I think, et accustomed to the place, we shall

find pleasantness in it It is a world pleasanter than New

York"

"No, it is not," said mamma vehemently; "and it never will be

In a city, you can cover yourself up, as it were, and half

hide yourself from even yourself; in such a place as this,

there is not a line in your lot but you have; leisure to trace

it all out; and there is not a rough place in your life but

you have time to put your foot on every separate inch of it

Life is bare, Daisy; in a city one lives faster, and one is in