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Pater Bonifácius had placed his kindly hand on the girl's hunched-up shoulders, and there was something in his touch which seemed to soothe the wild paroxysm of her grief. She raised her tear-stained face to his, and without a word--for her lips were shaking and she could not have spoken then--she handed him Andor's letter.
"May I go in," he asked, "and light the candle? It is too dark now to read."