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Elsie at Home by Martha Finley
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"Yes, mamma; as you know, I am very proud to exhibit my son and heir,"
laughed the doctor, bending over the crib, gently lifting the babe and
placing it in Elsie's arms, smilingly outstretched to receive it.

"He is indeed a lovely little darling," she said, gazing on it with
admiring eyes, then softly pressing her lips to the velvet cheek. "There
is nothing sweeter to me than a little helpless babe. I hope he may live
to grow up if the will of God be so, and I think he is going to resemble
his father," she added with a most affectionate look up into the
doctor's face.

"If he equals his father in all respects, his mother will be fully
satisfied," Marian said with a happy little laugh.

"Ah, love is blind, dearest," was Arthur's smiling response.

"And well for me that it is in your case, as I have often thought," she
said in sportive tone, "for it seems to hide all my imperfections and
show you virtues that are wholly imaginary."

"Then it is a very good and desirable kind of blindness, I think,"
remarked Grandma Elsie with her pleasant smile.

"Now, Cousin Elsie, please tell me about Rosie," Marian requested with a
look of keen interest. "I suppose she is both very busy and very happy."

"Quite busy and happy too, I think, except when her thoughts turn upon
the approaching separation--partial at least--from home and its loved
ones."

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