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----- {{goannp279.png}} || Good Old Anna ||


How often had she longed in the last eighteen years
to possess the privilege of a wish-ticket -- that delightful
_Wunschzettel_ which enables so many happy people
in the Fatherland to make it quite plain what it is
they really want to have given them for a birthday
or a Christmas present. Strange to say -- but Anna
did not stop to think of that now -- this wonderful bit
of organisation does not always work out quite well.
Evil has been known to come from a wish-ticket, for
a modest person is apt to ask too little, and then is
bitterly disappointed at not getting more than he asks
for, while the grasping ask too much, and are angered
at getting less!

It would be doing Anna a great injustice to suppose
that her sad thoughts were all of herself on this mournful
New Year's Day of 1915. Her sentimental heart
was pierced with pain every time she looked into the
face of her beloved nursling. Not that she often had
an opportunity of looking into Rose's face, for Mrs.
Jervis Blake (never would Anna get used to that
name!) only came home to sleep. She almost always
stayed and had supper with the Robeys, then she
would rush home for the night, and after an early
breakfast -- during which, to Anna's thinking, she did
not eat nearly enough -- be off again to spend with
her bridegroom whatever time she was not devoting
to war work under Miss Forsyth.

Anna had been curious to know how soon Mr.
Blake would be able to walk, but in answer to a very
simple, affectionate question, the bride, who had just
then been looking so happy -- as radiant, indeed, as a
German bride looks within a month of her marriage
day -- had burst into tears, and said hurriedly, "Oh, it


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