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Chapter 20. Confidential.

I don't think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters.

Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe.

So I will leave it to the imagination of my readers, merely saying that the house was full of genuine happiness,

and that Meg's tender hope was realized.

Her one-beth woke from that long, healing sleep.

The first objects on which her eyes fell were the little rows and mother's face.

Two weeks to wonder at anything, she only smiled,

and nestled close in the loving arms about her,

feeling that the hungry longing was satisfied, at last.

Then she slept again, and the girls waited upon their mother,

for she would not unclasp the thin hand which clung to hers even in sleep.

Hannah had dished up an astonishing breakfast for the traveler,

finding it impossible to vent her excitement in any other way,

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