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Serapis
Complete

CHAPTER XXVI
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Let us live in a little house, quite quietly, by ourselves.

A house with a garden, and a seat in the shade.

Your mother lives here!" And then she blushed scarlet and looked down.

He guessed, however, what was passing in her mind, and bid her only to have patience, for as soon as she was a baptized Christian Eusebius would intercede for her.

And he spoke warmly of his mother's piety and virtues, and asked Dada if she had seen her at the races.
"Yes," she replied timidly; and when he went on to ask her if she had not thought Mary very handsome and dignified, she answered frankly: "Yes--very; but then she is so tall and grand-looking-she must wish for a daughter-in-law very different from a poor, forsaken orphan like me--a mere singer, looked down upon by every one! It is different with you; you are satisfied with me as I am, and you know that I love you.


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