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The Little Colonel’s House Party

CHAPTER XV
17/19

"As soon as I heard the train whistle I jumped on Tarbaby without a saddle or anything, and just _toah_ down heah to tell you.

Of co'se she can't use her eyes much fo' a long time, and will have to weah a shade fo' weeks, but when they tested her eyes she _saw_! And she isn't goin' to be blind!" Eugenia gave a great, deep sigh of thankfulness, and leaned limply back in the carriage.

"Oh, papa," she exclaimed, "you can't imagine what a relief it is to hear that! I felt so much to blame, that now it seems as if a great weight had been lifted off from me." They were having a jubilee in Betty's room when Eugenia and her father reached the house.

Mrs.Sherman told them so, from the head of the stairs and called them to come on up and join in it.
It was a very quiet jubilee.

The doctor had insisted on that; but the unspoken joy of the little face on the pillow made happiness in every heart.


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