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148 UNOPENED PARCELS. few minutes afterwards. "What did his mother say when he told her ?" "Oh, haven't I mentioned that ?" cried my father. She said, 'I have suspected as much for years. Now I know it. Kiss me, my darling." Then she was not angry a bit, papa ?" "How could she be, with such a son, Honor ? That he was what he was, was enough for her-is always enough for a parent. Out of which fact comes the 'larger hope,' that such love is but the adumbration of the love and mercy of the Father in heaven."