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 REPENTANCE. 133 it out; but still there was a mark on her frock. And as she was not used to such work, she splashed herself all over, and her clean white frock was no longer white and clean, but wet from top to bottom. Oh, what must Annie do? The spot will not come out, though she has rubbed it till her little hands are sore. She hears a footstep on the stairs; it is her mother, anxious to see what had become of her dear child. Did Annie run to meet her as usual, and throw her little arms round her neck and kiss her? No, she felt afraid of her own dear mother, for she had been doing wrong, so she ran and hid her- Digitized by Google