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The first words that Elizabeth spoke, as she embraced Lady Cecil, "You are come, then all is well," seemed to confirm her belief that the offered protection of Mrs. Raby would sound to the poor orphan as a hospitable shore to the wrecked mariner. She pressed her fondly to her heart, repeating her own words, "All is well -- dear, dear Elizabeth, you are restored to us, after I believed you lost for ever."
"What, then, has happened? " asked Elizabeth, "and where is my dear father?"