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"I wait for the day when dear hearts shall discover, / While dear hands are laid on my head, / The child is a woman, the book may close ever, / For all the lessons are said. " / "I wait for my story-the birds cannot sing it, / Not one as he sits on the tree; / The bells cannot ring it, but long years, O bring it, / Such as I wish it to be. " / JEAN INGELOW.
Dr. INGRAM'S house was almost outside the town, and thus far the two girls went together. At the garden-gate they stopped; Mabel ran indoors, after a hasty good-bye, and Jean pursued her solitary way.