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"Bent o'er her babe, her eyes dissolved in dew,

The big drops e of his future years--

The child of horne

The days of Anna's waiting lagged She lost all count of time and

season Each day was painfully like its predecessor, a period of tih with, as best she could She realized after her

entle companionship had been to her, what a

prop the frail e had cohter's troubles, the grievances of the wootten in the anxiety of the hter, or entle presence

Anna, sunk in the stupor of her own grief, did not realize the comfort

of her mother's presence until it was too late She shrank froers hoed

shopkeeper and his wife, who had been glad enough to rent theure They were not lacking in

sy "Mrs Lennox," but their disposition to ask

questions made Anna shun them as she would have an infection After

her mother's death, they tried harder than ever to be kind to her, but

the listless girl, who spent her days gazing at nothing, was hardly

aware of their cos