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Luke, full of his great news, ran upstairs to his mother's room, with the letter from London in his hands.
He found her crouching over the fire in the big horsehair chair, the only armchair in the room. He was surprised that she did not look round at the sound of his footsteps and give him her usual smile of welcome. Instead, she stretched out her hand to him with averted eyes.