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The unwonted phenomenon of a cab brought Becky to the door ere her grandmother could jump out. She was still under ten, but prematurely developed in body as in mind. There was something unintentionally insolent in her precocity, in her habitual treatment of adults as equals; but now her face changed almost to a child's, and with a glad tearful cry of 'Oh, grandmother! ' she sprang into the old woman's arms.
It was the compensation for little Joseph's 'mamma. ' Tears ran down the old woman's cheeks as she hugged the strayed lamb to her breast.