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The Beautiful Garment
"You'll find our Lydia a child after your own heart, Martin," said Captain Neill, a retired officer, to his elder brother, who had lately returned from India.
"She seems to be a quick, intelligent girl," answered Mr. Neill, in a less enthusiastic tone.
"She is that, and a great deal more!" cried the father. "It is wonderful to see the good that child does! From cottage to cottage she goes, reading, talking--really like a grown-up woman; it would surprise you were you to hear her."
"Perhaps it would," said his brother, a pale, reserved man, with dark, thoughtful eyes, and a face on which love to God and good-will to man seemed to have set their stamp.
"Certainly, dear Lydia is a very uncommon child," lisped Mrs. Neill from the sofa, to which long and tedious, though not dangerous illness had confined her for several months.
"You see," pursued the captain, "we've no child but Lydia, so we've devoted all our care to our pet."
"An only child runs some danger of being spoilt," observed Mr. Neill, with a smile.
"Yes, yes, but we never spoil ours," answered the father, quickly.
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