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"Mother Germain stroked back the fair hair from Edmee's forehead.
"`My lady said I might tell you? ' she said slowly, `my dear, do not look so unhappy. It is no such very news. It is only what we have always known would have to be, sooner or later. You are growing a big girl, Edmee -- indeed, I should no longer call you thus by your name.'