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"Here is a parcel for you, Ruth! " said Miss Benson on the Tuesday morning.
"For me! " said Ruth, all sorts of rushing thoughts and hopes filling her mind, and turning her dizzy with expectation. If it had been from "him," the new-born resolutions would have had a hard struggle for existence.