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The little servant of all work, snuffling on the landing, found an opportunity to whisper to her mistress as she issued from the sick-room; the land lady, no less affected, carried the message in.
He came at once. His face was white and full of grief; but the lines of sorrow in it were disciplined to a sternness which forbade all sympathy and quieted all demonstration.