Like her all you want to . I do n't care . I can get along without you . '' She flung herself over against the wall of the garret with a slam . `` Oh , Mary , '' said Una , pushing a tender arm over Mary 's uncompromising back , `` do n't talk like that . I DO like you ever so much . And you make me feel so bad . '' No answer . Presently Una gave a sob . Instantly Mary squirmed around again and engulfed Una in a bear 's hug . `` Hush up , '' she ordered . `` Do n't go crying over what I said . I was as mean as the devil to talk that way . I orter to be skinned alive -- and you all so good to me . I should think you WOULD like any one better 'n me . I deserve every licking I ever got . Hush , now . If you cry any more I 'll go and walk right down to the harbour in this night-dress and drown myself . '' This terrible threat made Una choke back her sobs . Her tears were wiped away by Mary with the lace frill of the spare-room pillow and forgiver and forgiven cuddled down together again , harmony restored , to watch the shadows of the vine leaves on the moonlit wall until they fell asleep .
And XXXXX the study below Rev. John Meredith walked the floor with rapt face and shining eyes , thinking out his message of the morrow , and knew not that under his own roof there was a little forlorn soul , stumbling in darkness and ignorance , beset by terror and compassed about with difficulties too great for it to grapple in its unequal struggle with a big indifferent world .
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