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98 LavcHING Boy muscles at his shoulders. She thanked God ang § the gods indiscriminately. Whatever happenec | now, this could not be taken away. She shifted | the blanket, closed her eyes, and assumed sleep. | He sat down beside her, a little nervous abou her awakening. Her eyelids quivered, she yawned | deliciously, she stretched her arms like a kittea{ playing. She sat up and smiled at him, seeing hx| face brighten as he responded. I ‘Have I slept so late? I shall get your breakfast] as soon as I have fixed your hair. You should seey it. He felt of its disarray, with the queue hanging lopsided, then he grinned at her. ‘Your own = just as bad; go look at yourself in the spring.’ She reached over to a shelf and took down & small mirror, which she handed to him. He looked at himself in it; this was fascinating but a litte disappointing. Finally she took it from him. ‘Come, now, dress, and do up my hair.’ He had often exchanged that service with hi brothers and sisters; it was a pleasant and friend act. He had watched his mother and father tof gether at it, one leaning against the other’s knees} laughing when the brush pulled too hard, and be had seen that they extracted some pleasure fro: it which he did not know. Now he understood that, and the sheer domesticity of it delighted him