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It was a rather wakeful night which Louie passed, but a happy one. With Fred Lansing's love, life, which had seemed so black and dreary, looked very bright to her, although there was a feeling of humility in her heart that her father's debts should be paid by him. And yet the thought that it was his great love which prompted it robbed the humility of much of its bitterness, and it was a very happy young girl who went to Miss Percy the next morning as she was taking her coffee in her room.
"I think I know what you have come to tell me," Miss Percy said. "I saw Fred last night, and I am very glad. I knew it was coming long ago. You have won a noble man with, I may almost say, no faults, unless it be that he is a little too chary of his real feelings, which make him seem cold and proud when he is neither."