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"Oh, mother! dear mother! is it you?" half sobbed the not yet fully-awakened girl. "Yes, love. You are safe with your mother. But what have you been dreaming about?" "Dreaming!" Fanny raised herself from her mother's bosom, and looked at her with a bewildered air. "Yes, dear dreaming. This is your own room, and you are on your own bed. You have only been frightened by a fearful dream."
"Yes, I s'pose so," said Tom, looking a little dubious. Marjorie's thirteenth birthday dawned bright and clear. Her opening eyes rested on some strange thing sticking up at the foot of her bed, but a fully-awakened glance proved it to be a big No. 13, painted on a square of white pasteboard, and decorated with painted four-leaved clovers.
In mankind, the lower the type, and the less cultivated the mind, the less courage there is to face important subjects objectively. The ablest and most highly cultivated people continually discuss religion, politics, and sex: it is hardly an exaggeration to say that they discuss nothing else with fully-awakened interest.
To his now fully-awakened senses Trevor easily read the story, as far as signs could tell it. Brixton had been all but starved to death. He had lain down under a tree to die the very tree under which he himself had so recently given way to despair. While lying there he Brixton had scrawled his last words on the bit of birch-bark.
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