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 remorse. I know now what remorse means."

Nattie's father was not yet a Christian, so he could not soothe her with the soothing which she required. After a while, she said that Jesus would forgive her, she thought, because he had died for sinners.

Many questions were asked concerning sister Tiny and Irish Biddy. Tiny was well, only a cough, and this prevented her being the companion of the father in his journey. Biddy was married to a countryman of hers, and made a thrifty.

"Then who takes care of you?" Nattie asked, looking wistfully in her father's face.

"Well, I don't have too much care, daughter," he answered. "I have got along with having a woman come twice a week to do some washing and cooking. I was expecting to sell, on my return, and take board for Tiny and me; but you seem to be pretty well grown; I almost think that I shall lay on you the responsibility of being my