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"Oh yes, you shall take me there too," she observed. "I must see
that poor little Kit; it was so like you to think of her comfort;"
and here Anna laid a soft little hand on his coat-sleeve. "Malcolm,
I am afraid I ought not to let you talk any longer. I heard mother
go into her dressing-room ten minutes ago, and she is never long
over her toilet."
"That means I must get into my war paint too, or Dawson will be
coming in search of me;" and then he went off to his old room,
leaving Anna looking thoughtfully out of the window.
"To-morrow I shall be one-and-twenty," she said to herself; "it
seems a great age, but Malcolm is nearly nine years older." And then
she added to herself in a whisper, "And from morning to night we
shall be together, just he and I, our own two selves," and there was
a soft look of contentment on Anna's face.


CHAPTER V
MRS. HERRICK OBJECTS TO BOHEMIA

We fear originality as a coat which is too new, and do
our utmost to be like the rest of the world.--CARMEN
SYLVA.
Life is work.... Life without work is unworthy of being
lived.


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