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Veal, over which she gloated in a dreamy state; Aurelia's study was a dark-covered, pale-lettered copy of the Ikon Basilike, with the strange attraction that youth has to pain and sorrow, and sat musing over the resigned outpourings of the perplexed and persecuted king, with her bright eyes fixed on the deep blue sky, and the honeysuckle blossoms gently waving against it, now and then visited by bee or butterfly, while through the silence came the throbbing notes of the nightingale, followed by its jubilant burst of glee, and the sweet distant chime of the cathedral bells rose and fell upon the wind.
She led him to his place where a little purse of calf's leather peeped modestly out from, under the cakes. "This is your present from Mamma," she continued, handing him a long, dark-covered book. "It is 'The Three Ways to Peace, which you always admired so much." The learned gentleman hid a tear of emotion but squinted again at the little pocket-book.
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