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 "My DEAR GILBERT,-It is really true!
Herbert is better I will tell you how it
happened. Last night (Thursday) Edith and
I went to bed as sorrowfully as usual. We
had been in and seen Baby; he looked so ill
and altered that I could not bear to stay, it
made me feel so miserable ; and Edith, too,
was very unhappy. After we went to bed
she cried so, I was quite frightened ; at last
I told her she would be ill, too, and that
would give mamma more trouble, so she
stopped after a long while, and we both fell
asleep. Very early in the morning, before it
was light, I was awoke by mamma calling
'Grace, Grace,' in a low voice close to the
bedside. I jumped up in a great fright, and
there stood mamma, with a candle in her hand,
looking so odd. Oh! Gilbert, I thought it
was bad news. But directly I opened my
eyes, and saw more plainly, mamma came and
kissed me, saying, 'Thank God, Grace; Baby
is better; he has had such a nice sleep, and
woke, looking more like himself than he has
for a long time! I mustn't stay from him
now, but I could not help coming to tell you.'
I was so delighted I was obliged to wake
Edith, and we two laughed and cried like
wild things. It was so very nice after all this
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