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Aunt Phillis’s Cabin

CHAPTER II
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Lucy stood by, full of anxiety and affection, for this faithful servant loved her as she loved her own life.

My heart reproached me for my unintentional neglect, but I was in a moment by her side, supporting her head upon my breast.
"It is like a dream, that long night of agony.

The patience of Ellen, the kindness of her physician, and the devotion of her old nurse--I thought that only a wife could have endured as she did.
"Before this, Ellen had told me her wishes as regards her child, persuaded that, if it should live, she should not survive its birth to take care of it.

She entreated me to befriend it in the helpless time of infancy, and then to appeal to its father in its behalf.

I promised her to do so, always chiding her for not hoping and trusting.


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