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230 gray shadow gradually passed like a cloud from his face. Slowly he opened his eyes, slowly and wonderingly, as if he were just coming into a new world. They rested upon the eager, loving, sorrowful face, breathlessly watching him. A faint smile parted his lips, and he whispered, "Eleanor!"

"Anthony!"

She bent to his wasted hands and kissed them. He felt her tears dropping upon his face. There was no need of words. In that supreme moment their souls met and understood each other.

And in less than an hour the nurse on duty had let the whole household know that Master and Missis were friends. Then the cold cloud of doubt and suspicion in which she had dwelt so wretchedly began to part, and Eleanor soon found that the squire's pardon included that of his household. And it was pleasant to be again served with smiles and good wishes, to be sympathized with in her weariness, to have even Mrs. Parsons bring her dainty dishes of strengthening food, and insist on her taking little rests, to be, in short, thoroughly forgiven and taken into favor again.