Blunt did it a great deal better. Now they are
going. — Must you go?"
"Yes. What are you going to do to-morrow?"
"I don't know — I suppose, we shall go into the woods again."
"When the examination is over, I can attend to you. I haven't
much time just now. But there is really nothing to be done
here, since one can't get on horseback out of the hours."
"I don't want anything better than I can get on my own feet,"
I said joyously. "I find plenty to do."
"Look here, Daisy," said Preston — "don't you turn into a
masculine, muscular woman, that can walk her twenty miles and
wear hob-nailed shoes — like the Yankees you are among. Don't
forget that you are the daughter of a Southern gentleman —"
He touched his cap hastily and turned away — walking with
those measured steps towards the barracks; whither now all the
companies of grey figures were in full retreat. I stood
wondering, and then slowly returned with my friends to the
hotel; much puzzled to account for Preston's discomposure and
strange injunctions.
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