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Mrs Charuess his

; but apart fro painful, harsh, or even earnest, that his prelih to distress her "Yes, what is it?" she said

"I am an old ht fit to bless with one child, and she a daughter Her mother

was a very dear wife to , and the child became precious as the apple of my eye

to me, for she was all I had left to love For her sake entirely I

married as second wife a homespun woman who had been kind as a mother

to her In due time the question of her education came on, and I said,

'I will educate the maid well, if I live upon bread to do it' Of her

possible e I could not bear to think, for it seemed like a death

that she should cleave to another row to think his house her

home rather than mine But I saas the law of nature that this

should be, and that it was for the one; and I made up my mind without a ed ive her,that they liked each other well Things cahter's happiness to