The Home Mission by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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"Yes, sir. Do you know Aunt Hannah?" and the child looked up wonderingly into the man's face. "I used to know her," he replied. Just then Lilly heard her mother calling her, and she started and ran away in the direction from which the voice came. The man's face grew slightly pale, and he was evidently much agitated. As he had done on the evening previous, he rose up hastily and walked away. But in a short time he returned, and appeared to be carefully looking about for some one. At length he caught sight of Lilly's mother. She was sitting with her eyes upon the ground, the child leaning upon her, and looking into her face, which he saw was thin and pale, and overspread with a hue of sadness. Only for a few moments did he thus gaze upon her, and then he turned and walked hurriedly from the garden. Mrs. Canning sat alone with her child that evening, in the handsomely-furnished apartments she had hired on arriving in Paris. "He told you that he knew Aunt Hannah?" she said, rousing up from a state of deep thought. "Yes, ma. He said he used to know her." "I wonder"-- A servant opened the door, and said that a gentleman wished to see Mrs. Canning. |
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