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while they were on their way home, she said,
“Papa, don’t you think Miss Bennet has a
beautiful soul ?”

In a few days Lucy again visited Miss Bennet
with her mother, who went to announce her
intention of taking Kate into her own family
as a seamstress, and occasionally to take care.
of Emma, who was now able to walk, and there-
fore did not need a very strong nurse. This
arrangement gave great pleasure to Miss Bennet
Lucy was quite as much interested in her
second visit as she had been in her first; and
she often afterward repeated these visits, some-
times spending the whole morning with Miss
Bennet, to whose room her father would take
her on his way to his office, leaving her mother
to call for her at noon. By only leading Lucy
to speak of her illness and its consequences,
Miss Bennet, without asking any disagreeable
questions, or making any observations that would
embarrass her young visitor, learned much of
her feclings and trials. Miss Bennet had herself
experienced the same, only much more severely ;
because, while Lucy had at least the hope of