saw it first cried out, "I see the star!" (r) and often they cried out both together, knowing so well when it would rise, and where. (s) So they grew to be such friends with it that, before lying down in their beds, they always looked out once again, to bid it good night; (t) and when they were turning round to sleep, they used to say, "God bless the star!"
Scene II. (a) But while she was still very young, oh very, very young, the sister drooped and came to be so very weak that she could no longer stand in the window at night; (b) and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and when he saw the star, turned round and said to the patient face on the bed, "I see the star!" (c) and then a smile would come upon the face, and a little weak voice used to say, "God bless my brother and the star!"
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