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134 self behind the door. Silly child, what good could that do her, for her mother was sure to find her. And then, too, she was such a kind mother, and would have forgiven her directly if she had told her all the truth. REPENTANCE. "Where is my dear Annie," she said as she entered the nursery, but no one spoke. She began to feel rather alarmed, and was leaving the room to call the nurse, when she heard a sob from behind the door, and, to her great surprise, found little Annie there, her eyes red with weeping, her clean frock wet and crushed, and a large dark spot upon it. What have Digitized by Google
