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When prayers were ended, and his mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
-Elizabeth Gaskell
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When Prayers Were Ended, And His Mother

Elizabeth Gaskell
When prayers were ended, and his mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.
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