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with jessamines and carpeted with violets. Early
in May Lucy and Mary returned to New York,
and took their places again at Mrs. Butler’s schoct.
This second parting from Mary was less painful
to Maumer, for her short visit to Mr. Lovett’
house had satisfied her that “her child” was
kindly treated, and had made her very unwilling
to live herself where, to use her own language,
there were none of her own people.

Lucy carried her crutches back with her, and
keeps them in herroom. “TI like them,” she says,
“because they,were my good medicine.”

Watch over your own hearts, my dear young
readers, and carefully guard against that vanity
whose root is selfishness, and whose fruits are
‘envy, malice, and all uncharitableness.”’

 

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