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In his eyes was a wealth of unspeakable feeling.
"Doctor, I want to thank you!"--but it was her face thanked him most
eloquently.
She was glad when he left her for a minute before they finally went away.
Her heart was very full. This was Karl! This the real meaning of Karl's
work! To think she had looked at it in that small, paltry way--that even
in her thoughts she had put the slightest stumbling block in his path.
This very afternoon had come new inspiration and she had resented it, had
said small, mean things in her heart because he stayed to work out his
precious thoughts. Why, it would have been fairly criminal for Karl to
run away from that call of his work!
She wanted to tell him all about it; she yearned to "make it up to him,"
make him more happy than he had ever been before. She dwelt upon it all
until, when Dr. Parkman came in for her, he was startled at the light
shining from her face.


CHAPTER X

KARL IN HIS LABORATORY
One of their favourite speculations, as the days went on, was as to
whether any one had ever been so happy before.


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