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Melbourne House, Volume 2

CHAPTER III
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These bits of paper shew where the great battle-fields are." "Original!" said the doctor.
"No sir, it is not," said Daisy.

"Captain Drummond taught it to me." "What, the history ?" "No; but this way of playing." Preston was laughing and trying to keep quiet.

Nothing could be graver than the doctor.
"Is it interesting, this way of playing ?" "Very!" said Daisy, with a good deal of eagerness, more than she wished to shew.
"I wish you would forbid it, Dr.Sandford," said Daisy's mother.

"I do not believe in such a method of study, nor wish Daisy to be engrossed with any study at all.

She is not fit for it." "Whereabouts are you ?" said the doctor to Daisy.
"We are just getting through the wars of the Roses." "Ah! I never can remember how those wars began--can you ?" "They began when the Duke of York tried to get the crown of Henry the Sixth.


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