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 REPENTANCE. on it. There was one pen left standing in the ink, and Annie, who was very fond of scribbling, forgot that her mother had often told her not to touch pen and ink without asking leave, so she amused her- self with them for some time. 131 At last, when she was dipping her pen into the ink, a large thick piece of the bot- tom stuck to it, and in her hurry to shake it off, a great drop of ink fell upon her clean white frock. Oh, you would have been sorry for Annie, had you seen her just then. First her face was very red, and then it was very white, and she trembled all over. Then her merry eyes looked Google Digitized by