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Sit down and look them over carefully and see if they are all here!" He took them up, with volatile relief laughing on his yet tear-marked face, and said: "We'll burn them, Vessy." "Nay, sir, not till you have seen them all. A single note missing would give you the same perplexity, and there is no daughter left to settle it." He looked at her with a smile, yet annoyance.
Mostyn crossed over to Dick's bed and looked down on the tear-marked face. The child's breast was spasmodically quivering with suppressed sobs. His lips were swollen; there was a red mark on the broad white brow, against which the locks lay like pliant gold. "What caused this?" Mostyn demanded, pointing to the spot. "It is where his mother slapped 'im this mornin'. She had to do it.
As Margaret moved to leave the room Dick called her in a voice faint, but full of joy. "Margaret," he said, a smile breaking like light through a dark cloud, "my head was broken, but I'd have all the bones in my body broken, just to have Barney set them. We're all right, eh, boy?" Slowly Barney raised his face, tear-marked, worn, but radiant with a peace it had not known for many a day.
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