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only wish that I have greatly at heart I now lay before you, and
that is, that you will take my child under your protection for as
long as she may need your care. I shall leave very little money
behind me, but I beg you to employ this little in teaching Dora
something that will enable her, with God's help, to support
herself when she is old enough.
"Do not, my dear sister, give way to your grief; try to believe as
I believe, that God will always take our children under his
care, when we are obliged to leave them and can no longer provide
for them ourselves. Receive my heartfelt thanks for all the
kindness you have shown to me and my child. God will reward you
for it all."
Aunt Ninette read and re-read these touching lines, and could not help
growing calmer as she read. She turned to the silently weeping Dora with
these words,
"Come, my child, your home henceforth will be with us. You and I will try
to remember that all is well with your father; otherwise we shall break
down under our sorrow.
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