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"And I aain, but this tin that she was understood, and that afternoon she went back

to Hanover loaded with testaments for the children of St Mark's, and

new books for the Sunday-school, and, acco had a serious difference with her mistress, Mrs Meredith,

offered her services to Lucy, and was at once accepted

That was near the middle of October; noas towards the last, and

Anna was so much better that she sat up for an hour or more, and

listened with soree of interest to what Mrs Meredith told her

of the days when she lay so unconscious of all that was passing around

her, never even heeding the kindly voice of Thornton Hastings, who,

more than once, had stood by her pilloith his hand on her feverish

brow, and whose thoughtfulness was visible in the choice bouquets he

sent each day, with notes of anxious inquiry when he did not come

himself

Anna had not seen him yet since her convalescence She would rather

not see any one until strong enough to talk, she said; and so Thornton

waited patiently for the interview she had proer, but every day he sent her fruit and flowers, and books of

prints which he thought would interest her, and which always retfully, for she thought of the