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If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
The woeful fright in the coal-smutted face made her suddenly so sorry that she could scarcely bear it.
"If you can, you are a clever child," answered Miss Minchin, drawing in her mouth sharply.
And she began from that minute to feel rather a grudge against her show pupil.