Hastings have Dora just when he wanted her_, if it
would be any satisfaction to poor dear Ella!"
A while longer Mr. Hastings remained, and when at last he arose to
go, he was as sure that Dora Deane would again gladden his home as
he was next morning, when from his library window he saw her come
tripping up the walk, her cheeks flushed with exercise, and her
eyes sparkling with joy, as, glancing upward, she saw him looking
down upon her. In after years, when Howard Hastings's cup was full
of blessings, he often referred to that morning, saying "he had
seldom experienced a moment of deeper thankfulness than the one
when he welcomed back again to his fireside and his home the
orphan Dora Deane."
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CHAPTER X.
ELLA.
Very pleasantly to Dora did the remainder of the winter pass away.
She was appreciated at last, and nothing could exceed the kindness
of both Mr. and Mrs. Hastings, the latter of whom treated her more
like a sister than a servant, while even Eugenia, who came often
to Rose Hill, and whose fawning manner had partially restored her
to the good opinion of the fickle Ella, tried to treat her with a
show of affection, when she saw how much she was respected.
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