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hod 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. But I think he was wrong--don't you?" "Somebody is always wrong in those affairs," said the doctor. "You are getting through the wars of the Roses. What do you find was the end of them?" "When the Earl of Richmond came. We have just finished the battle of Bosworth Field. Then he married Elizabeth of York, and so they wore the two roses together." "Harmoniously?" said the doctor. "I don't know, sir. I do not know anything about Henry the Seventh yet." "What was going on in the rest of the world while the Roses were at war in England?" "O I don't know, sir!" said Daisy, looking up with a sudden expression of humbleness. "I do not know anything about anywhere else." "You do not know where the Hudson River was then." "I suppose it was where it is now?" "Geographically, Daisy; but not politically, socially, or commercially. Melbourne House was not thinking of building; and the Indians ferried their canoes over to Silver Lake, where a civilized party are going in a few days to eat chicken salad under very different auspices." "Were there no white people here?" "Columbus had not discovered America, even. He did that just about seven years after Henry the Seventh was crowned on Bosworth Field." "I don't know who Columbus was," Daisy said, with a glance so wistful and profound in its sense of ignorance, that Dr. Sandford smiled. "You will hear about him soon," he said, turning away to Mrs. Randolph. That lady did not look by any means well pleased. The doctor stood before her looking down, with the sort of frank, calm bearing that characterized him. "Are you not, in part at least, a Southerner?" was the lady's first question. "I am sorry I must lose so much of your good opinion as to confess myself a Yankee," said the doctor steadily. "Are you going to give your sanction to Daisy's plunging herself into study, and books, and all that sort of thing, Dr. Sandford?" "Not beyond _my_ depth to reach her." "I do not think it is good for her. She is very fond of it, and she does a great deal too much of it when she begins; and she wants strengthening first, in my
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