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When Primrose went home and told her sisters and Miss Egerton what she had done, Jasmine's eyes had grown first bright, and then misty.
"To be continual reader to Mrs. Mortlock! " she exclaimed. "Oh, Primrose, it is an act of self-denial to you -- it is, isn't it? Own at once that you were very brave to do it, darling."