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Yes. Doing it ones own self because one loves another person very much and wants her to be happy? Yes. And doing it pleasantly, and being glad about it, and not minding the praise if it doesnt come? Yes, dear, that is the true spirit of self-sacrifice; you seem to understand it, and I dare say you will have many chances in your life to try the real thing. I hope they wont be very hard ones. I think they will, began Rose, and there stopped short. Well, make one now, and go to sleep, or my girl will be ill to-morrow, and then the aunts will say camping out was bad for her. Ill gogood night! and throwing him a kiss, the little ghost vanished, leaving Uncle Alec to pace the shore and think about some of the unsuspected sacrifices that had made him what he was. |
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