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Show shipment and one invoice is warranted to come back with payment." "And ever and again they have good fortune and all five of them come back with payment!" Janni laughed, "And list thou, my lady Mother-met I a BauerWorlde fellow at Terra last year-a bonny young man with long gold hair-whose brother lived in the southern Commendiums for three years on salary checks sent'st most faithfully to him by mistake!" "My child, that's nothing new, and that verily." "But for disability stemming from his death in the High Tartars?" The two women threw their heads back and laughed heartily. Then Dr'Anya sobered. Who be this Lori the child speaks of with such affection? She felt a tug at her heart which then settled like a piece of lead within her breast. The young Janni looked at her mother curiously; wondering at the sudden change in mood, while her mother sorted over the ways the child had changed since she'd last seen her. Her hair had grown a shade darker, aye, her head was held just a mite higher, and even in bed after a bad fright the child appeared to her mother distant and independent. Dr'Anya, though searching for some reason Inside herself-weariness? indigestion?-for feeling these differences, came up with no comfort in that regard and she wilted a bit in spirt. Ah, 'twere ever thus, she thought, they grow away, the children. Three TwelveMonths have passed and she is now no longer child, but maiden. Indeed, I were wrong to have thought that she be still tied to me, flesh and blood, that she be still of me and mine alone. No, she will become another's, indeed. She will have plans of her own. And, in t r u t h , she thought, I have ever been domineering, and dwelt on't with despair ever and often in my dealings with the child. I have 80 |