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    The Heart of the Rose
    The Heart of the Rose
    The Heart of the Rose
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    The Heart of the Rose

    By Mabel Anne McKee

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Title: The Heart of the Rose

      Author: Mabel A. McKee

      Release Date: August 10, 2008 [EBook #26254]

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      e was her brother. The thought gave her the same thrill this morning as it had given her on a morning seventeen years back, when the old family doctor had laid a tiny bundle in her arms and said, You'll have to be his sister and mother both, Elizabeth.

      Her twelve years then hung heavily on her; her little face, stained with the marks of recent tears, took on a warmer glow as she touched the baby's hand. She had unfolded the baby blanket and slipped on his first little clothes. And as she dressed him, she felt a sense of loss; with every fresh garment he seemed to become less of an angel and more of a human being. The same feeling of loss was now in her heart as she folded his great Indian blankets, slipped his photographs into the case and filled the nooks and crevices of his trunk with little surprises to drive away the first

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