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It would be better for her to lay the entire matter before her sister-in-law--that was what she would do immediately! She sprang to her feet and ran lightly up-stairs; but, fast as she fled, thought outran her slender flying feet, and she came at last very leisurely into Celia's room, a subdued, demure opportunist, apparently with nothing on her mind and conscience, "If I may have the carriage at ten, Celia, I'll begin on the Destitute Children to-morrow.

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