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"Child," he said brokenly, "you are the one bright spirit in this generation." But Tessibel did not understand. She went down the long flight of steps, and into the sun-lit street, with but a backward glance at the rag-draped basket she had left under the church window. Tessibel was a child again, a happy, free-hearted child.
Old prematurely old, and young pitifully young; white and brown; fair and faded; sad and cynical; starved and prosper ous; rag-draped and satin-bedecked; together they wait their turn at judgment. Quietly moving back and forth before the prisoners' bench you see a woman, tall, graceful, black-gowned.
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