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 132 quite sad, for they were full of tears, which rolled down her cheeks like an April shower. "But what must I do?" she thought. "I will go and tell my mother how naughty I have been; but then she will be angry with me, because she told me not to do it, and she will pun- ish me. Oh, I will go up stairs again, and try to wash it out, and then I can dry it at the fire, and nobody will know." So she set off up stairs again, and she found the nursery empty, for nurse was gone down. Then she went to the basin and got the soap, and dipped her ink spot in the water, and she rubbed it and wrung REPENTANCE. Digitized by Google