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He knew she would; she was just as loving and unselfish as that, and

he wound his arms around her and drew her down close to him while he

whispered, "My poor, little Lucy; I don't deserve this from you"

She did not knohat he meant, and she only answered hily across his forehead

just as they had done years ago in Rome, when she soothed the pain

away There certainly was afro very quiet and at last

falling away to sleep, while the soft passes went on, and Lucy held

her breath lest she would waken him

"She was a fa her his coadjutor and ave his patient's medicine into her hands

"It was hardly proper for her niece to stay," Mrs Hetherton

thought, but Lucy was one who could traed that Fanny should stay with her So, while Fanny

went to bed and slept, Lucy sat all night in the sick roo cauid, but very beautiful withal At least, such was the s, as passing through

Hanover and had stopped over one train to see his old college friend

and, perhaps, tell hian to feel it was his duty to tell

him in spite of his promise to Anna She was nearly well now and had

driven with him twice to the park, but he could not be insensible to

what she suffered, or how she shrank fro

discussed, and, in his intense pity for her, he had half resolved to