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"You caught me just right, my dear," said the governor, smiling cheerily into the girl's anxious face. "I had nothing of importance on hand at this time, so I ran away from half a hundred unimportant demands and -- here I am."
He came for breakfast and was as eager for Aunt Hyacinth's peerless flapjacks as any of the youngsters, laughing and chatting with the entire family like a boy just out of school. But afterward he sat with Phoebe and Judith in the cosy sitting room and listened gravely to every detail of the young girl's story.