Page 15 - Green Butterfly Book 2
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“My beloved child, you see that I am so very sick that soon I must die and leave you and your father alone. Promise me that when I am gone, every morning when you get up and every night when you go to bed, you will look into the mirror which your father gave me long ago. In it, you will see me smiling back at you, and you will know that I am ever near to protect you.”
The daughter, never forgetting her mother’s wishes, each morning and evening took the glass from the place where it was hidden and looked in it for a long time. There she saw the face of her dead mother brilliant and smiling, not pale and sick as it was in her last days, but young and beautiful. To this vision each night she confided the troubles and little faults of the day, looking to it for help and encouragement in doing her duty.
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