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to draw them forth! With that the affair
was for the present dismissed.

_ Only Alice blushed very deeply as the
rows of eyes were turned on her, and then
Frank Evans almost sent up a great hurra,
‘‘ right in school,” and Patrick Rogans wagged
his great bushy head till the wind blew. Rovina
as she took her seat was heard to sob audibly,
but at this moment the sun broke through the
clouds, and such a flood of light came pouring
through the school-house windows, the burst
of grief did not seem half so much associated
with sorrow as with hope and gladness.
Lizzie’s face, which would not keep clouded
for a long time any how, suddenly cleared up
now, and really, as she looked at Rovina,
began shining with all its wonted kindliness.
Alice had wiped away the blood stains, and
the swollen cheek, red and inflamed as it