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There was not one in the household who did not feel happier for his return, nor one who did not seek to render him some kind office. It was impossible under such a burst of heart-sunshine, for the spirit of Mr. Freeman long to remain shrouded.
Robert would get better; this illness might alter him; he would be a long time feeble, needing help, walking with a crutch, perhaps. She would wait on him with such tenderness, such all-forgiving love, that the old harshness and cruelty must melt away for ever under the heart-sunshine she would pour around him. Her bosom heaved at the thought, and delicious tears fell.
But it was a charming face, nevertheless, full of heart-sunshine; and the dark brown, darkly-fringed eyes would have redeemed a plainer face. Miss Merivale remembered with a sharp pang how Lydia had written of her dark-eyed girl. She spoke of her sister, after a moment or two. "It has struck me that your father might have been related to her second husband," she said.
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