CHAPTER ONE
TH~ i~，o~r.~>.r~ Lora ~Y/ir， cot opened her eyes she knew it
~ was t，o be a special day.
All her iite:， it seemed to he~ ， the~e had bee~ ~hese
p1~ecious moments of aw~ening to what promised to be
the very day fo，~: which she bad beer， waiting. True， k
ofter， happened that the day， so rosy in prospecL turned
<，Jr to be just another day .~}f clstiai routine and disappoir~-
~ncr.，i， but the constant failures had not dirz~ned her belief
bJ uhimate success. This very day， unless she was veff
~au(:h mistaken， was to be a day whi&~ would change lhe
e~，tire course o~ her lifeo
She iinked her hands behind her head， smiling to herseKo
v~q~y on ea，th was she so eager to welcome change， when
already she had everything she had once desired from life?
Perhaps it was just one mole example of the pet saying
of the Matron back at the orphanage~ How many t~mes，
during her childhood， had Laura heard that ugly woman~
wit~ the hea~~ of gold， say those words? \"Much wants
more， child，\" she d say， whenever one of her small charges
was acrased of day-dreaming or fretting for something she
cou!d not supply. \"Be cor_，te，~t with what the good Lord
sends you， and stop oying/:or the moore More you have~
i~.iofe yot.z WaDto\"
WeiL ~;he had rr， ore O， an she had ever dreamed of
posaes~L~，g， hadrft she? Here she ，aaa at Magdaler， e I.iow~e，
sr，:iaiL stied: t~nrsmg-home， fa.mo~s fo~: miles arour， d. She
bad p:~ssed ail tho ae exaz，~.~nations w~6ch had once aee:rr， ed
:，o fo;midabie， a，~d was a fi~liy qaalKied nuraeo Mat~o~
was pieased with her， had hinted vag~miy， bu{ ueve~theo
less exciting.ly， that if Loma contin~aed m the way she had
started， there was every posaibiiitT of promotio，~ befo~
v%\" long. She Ioved the work， eve~ the mos~ ，~mr~dar，.e
bsk， and she found the patients of co~~tia.~aoas and abso，:b
ing inte;v:st. From hee: windows， at ~hie very moraer~，~
she co~ald ic_~)k: out oa to miles of ca~;~on-ia~d~ sto.dded
with siiver birch arid deep~ ~l~sh bracken how differeat
from the br{ck wall:; which haJ 5;:eeted he~ eager eyc~，
every rnome~-~t of he~ yo~r~g life! Mag&lene Ho~.~se
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