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er seasickness of a summer before; how the little Hamilton girl had asked personal and embarrassing questions of Catherine herself. It had sounded funny, when Catherine told the tales in her quiet way,--but to be alone with them for an hour! Hannah's heart failed her entirely. She shut the Bible and marched up to Catherine's room. Catherine was dressing, as far away from the mirror as possible. "Hannah, dear," she called, seeing the brown hair and blue eyes through a crack in the door. "Do come in. You don't know what a dear you were to take that class. I went straight to sleep, and didn't mind the pain nearly so much after that. It worried me so. You see, the Sunday-school is so small and I had been over and over it in my mind, and couldn't think of any one who would do. It's the last class any one is ever willing to take." "Why?" asked Hannah, her prepared refusal suspended. "O, because it's so big, and there are all ages of little people in it. But you'll do beautifully. Children always love you. Do you know what the lesson is?" Hannah hesitated. Then a glance at Catherine's distorted face made her ashamed of herself, and she answered bravely: "No. What is it? I'll have to study up a lot." "You'll find plenty of material in those leaflets and books in the pile there on the table by my Bible. It's about the Good Shepherd. And if you're going down, will you ask mother to come in before breakfast? I don't believe I've been doing the right things." So Hannah, laden with Helps and Hints, went slowly down stairs again, and after having sent Dr. Helen up to see her afflicted daughter, resumed her place in the window-seat and put her mind resolutely on the subject of the lesson. "'Bring in the 23rd Psalm,'" she read in one suggestion. "That's good. I know that much and I can make them repeat it the whole hour, if nothing else comes into my head. How is she, Dr. Helen?" Dr. Helen smiled ruefully. "She will be all right after a while, but it is a pity, isn't it? You were a good girl to relieve her mind about that class. She cares so much about it. Good morning, Frieda! _Hast du gut geschlafen?_" The Three Gables household was a church-going one. Hannah, in her white gown with sweet-peas scattered over it, met the doctors in the hall. "Is Frieda late?" she asked, putting on her gloves. "It isn't like her." "No, but she begged so hard to stay with Catherine whose state seems to waken deeps of pity in he
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