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Perhaps never, in all her life of inopportune arrivals, had Miss Annabel been so truly welcome-or so bitterly resented! Esther turned to her with a heart-sob of relief, the minister walked away without a word.
"Dear me! What's the matter?" said the good lady. "You seem all excited. Perhaps I shouldn't have shouted out the news so abruptly. But i