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ion in her loneliness, and her heart was gladdened as if she heard the voice and saw the face of a friend. The lamb was happy also; it played at her side, and took the little tufts of grass from her hand as readily as if she had been its friend from infancy. And then the lamb leaped away, and Mary's heart went out after it, and she followed her heart. Now the little thing would sport by her side, and then rush forward as if about to forsake her altogether, and so she followed it, without any anxiety as to whither it would lead her. She was lost, she had no friends to help her in her distress.
