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A FOUNTAIN SEALED
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"I will have friends with me," she said to herself; "I will garden and learn a new language. I will read a great many books." And, with a sense of happy daring, not rebuked by reason, she could add, thinking of the mingled threads:— "I will have them often here to stay with me, and, perhaps, they will let me spoil the babies."