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Charrington spoke to us. A
comfortable chair, and moon-light, and a German lullaby are
soporific influences."
"Nonsense, Betty," replied Dinah in her practical, downright way,
"he was as wide-awake as I was; but," with a little sigh of
sympathy, "he looked rather sad. Are you sure he is quite happy,
dear?"
"I expect he is quite as happy as he deserves to be," returned
Elizabeth in rather a hard-hearted way; and then she went off,
singing to herself in a low tone a line or two from her last song:
"It may be in the Land above--
The Land beyond our ken;
Yet we shall meet again, my love,
Though none can answer when"
And as Dinah stood listening in the moonlight her face looked like
the face of a radiant infant.
"That is so true," she whispered, "and what does it matter--when!"


CHAPTER XV
"BETTY IS A TRUMP!"

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza: read it
forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing....
We pass for what we are: character teaches above our wills.
--EMERSON.


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