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The Measure of a Man

CHAPTER VIII
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Will you go with me to the nursery?
It is the girl's night out, but if you prefer to----" "Let us go to the nursery, Lucy, and send the girl out.

I have come specially to have a long talk with you about Harry and her absence will be a good thing." Then he took her hand and they went together to a large room upstairs.
There was a bright fire burning on this hearth and a large fur rug before it.

A pretty bassinet, in which a lovely girl-baby was sleeping, was on one side of the hearth and Lucy's low nursing-chair on the other side, and a little round table set ready for tea in the center.

A snow-white bed in a distant corner held the two boys, Stephen and Ralph, who were fast asleep.

John stooped first to the baby, and kissed it, and Lucy said, "I have called her Agnes.


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