Leah came to take the child, who refused to leave Dora,
clinging so obstinately to her neck, and crying so pitifully, that
even Eugenia was touched, and bade her cousin remain until Mr.
Hastings came home. So Dora stayed, and the timid servants, as
they sat together in the shadowy twilight, felt not half so lonely
when they heard her gentle voice singing the motherless babe to
sleep.
CHAPTER XII.
WAYS AND MEANS.
With all the showy parade and empty pomp of a fashionable city
funeral, Ella was laid to rest in Greenwood, and, in their
darkened parlor, arrayed in the latest style of mourning, the
mother and sisters received the sympathy of their friends, who
hoped they would try to be reconciled, and were so sorry they
could not now go to the Springs, as usual. In another parlor, too,
far more elegant but less showy than that of Mrs. Grey, another
mother wept for her only son, speaking to him blessed words of
comfort in his bereavement, and telling him of the better world,
where again he would meet the loved and lost.
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