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 124 REPENTANCE. grandmother's room. Then she told me how to fix my patchwork, and so the time passed on until the afternoon, when a lady and her little daughter came to see Aunt Mary, and I was called into the parlor. Oh that rose,' thought I; but go I must. I had not been in long, when the flowers were talked about, and Aunt Mary got up to show them her tea-rose. Why, it is faded-broken,' she said. 'How did this happen? Mary, do you know anything about it?' I felt frightened, and an- swered quickly, 'No ma'am.' No sooner were the words out, than I began to feel very bad indeed. 'Worse and worse,' I Digitized by Google