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course it is! What on campus --"
"And. . . she's your mother?" I leaned against the cardfile for support.
"Ourmother, I hope!" She drew me hubwards. "Let's find out for sure, before she goes off somewhere."
But I held back yet a moment, flabbergast with memory and surprise. Poor dear Creamie! How I understood now your unwillingness to meet my keeper, or tell me your name; how I trembled at your old interest in me, your yen to pluck me from the herd, and -- Founder, Founder! -- your appall at my lust to Be, that drove you watchless from the grove!
"Anastasia. . ." I could scarcely speak. It was the empty Scroll-case now I leaned on, and drew her to me. Dutifully she resisted -- until assured that it was a brotherly embrace. "I won't explain now, but. . . I've known that lady before, and I -- I really think that you and Imight be twins."
She hugged me enthusiastically -- confounding my poor blood, which knew no longer what permissibly might rouse it. I suggested then that the shock of seeing me after so many terms might do her mother --our mother! -- more harm than good unless properly prepared for; we agreed that Anastasia would go to her at first alone, draw her out upon
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