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And there, under a promiscuous pile of other garments, Dora found
them, sadly soiled, and looking as if they had not seen the light
for many a day. Shaking out the gown, and brushing the dust from
off the slippers, she laid them in the chair, and Ella, who was
watching her, said, "Pray, what put that into your mind?"
"I don't know," returned Dora; "only I thought, perhaps, you did
so, when you were well Ever so long ago, before pa died, mother
made him a calico dressing-gown, and he used to look so pleased
when he found it in his chair."
"Strange I never thought of such things," softly whispered Ella,
unconsciously learning a lesson from the little domestic girl, who
brushed the hearth, dropped the curtains, lighted the lamp, and
then went out to the kitchen in quest of milk for Fannie.
"He will be so happy and pleased!" said Ella, as, lifting up her
head, she surveyed the cheerful room.
And happy indeed he was. It was the first time he had left his
wife since her illness, and with a tolerable degree of satisfaction
he took his seat in the evening cars.
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