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You would not let me speak to you before; but I must tell you now, I am so very sorry,--and I have wished so much that you should know it.
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Indeed, I have known it, replied Emily;
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But it was not only that, continued Margaret;
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I wanted to say, and so did Dora too, that we know we have often been very unkind, and done a great many wrong things; and we should be much happier if you would say that you forgive us.
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Will you?
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I do not like to say it, replied Emily;
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For Rose, continued Emily, firmly.
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I do not know, indeed, how I should have felt without her; but with her I had, at times, all that I dared desire; and now God has given me blessings for which I can never be sufficiently grateful.
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Yes, said Dora;
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Amy is a blessing to every one.
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And you are blessings too, replied Emily, in a tone of deep interest and kindness.
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You do not know the satisfaction you are affording me now; and you may be unspeakable blessings to your parents.
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We shall not know what to do when you are gone, said Margaret;
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Your mamma will recover herself by and by, I have no doubt; and then we shall be so near, it will be scarcely like a separation.
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There was one thing, said Dora,
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I will tell you really, though, replied Emily.
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I always try to say exactly what I mean.
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Then do you think, sometimes, if we go to the cottage, you would be able to hear us play, and look at our drawings? We shall be so very much at a loss without you.
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I trust, said Emily,
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Everything will seem a great deal worse then,
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Mrs Herbert intends staying with your mamma while she continues so ill, I believe, replied Emily;
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Do you know what Dr Bailey thinks about mamma?
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He says that she requires change, but she is not equal to the exertion of moving.
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I wish we might go somewhere before Frank returns to school, observed Dora.
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He has had such melancholy holidays.
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Should you like to go to London?
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Oh no!--not to London; any place but that.
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I thought you wished it once,
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Yes; but things are altered since then. I shall never wish to go there.
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Do you think Lucy will go to London without us?
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She will never go at all, if she does not, replied Dora.
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Papa will not consent to her being with us again as she used to be.
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She will be very sorry about it,
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Oh! it will not signify to her. She will find other persons to suit her just as well; and she will go to gay parties, and drive about in the parks, and forget us, and everything about us.
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Not everything, said Margaret.
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I am sure she cannot forget everything. She must feel for us.
human
Perhaps she may care for a day or two; but it is not her way to think on any subject long. Do you think it is?
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I hope it may be, by and by, was the reply;
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There is one of the Rochford servants coming down the avenue now, said Dora.
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Perhaps he has brought a note or a message.
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I suppose he is only come as usual to inquire for mamma, said Margaret.
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Morris says Lord Rochford has sent nearly every day.