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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which detail best shapes the idea that the girl continued to be comforted by her mother even after she was gone?
(12) She called the girl to her and said, "My darling child, you know that I am very sick; soon I must die and leave your dear
father and you alone. When I am gone, promise me that you will look into this mirror every night and every morning; there you
will see me, and know that I am still watching over you." With these words she took the mirror from its hiding-place and gave it to
her daughter. The child promised, with many tears, and so the mother, seeming now calm and resigned, died a short time after.
(13) ...There she saw the bright and smiling vision of her lost mother. Not pale and sickly as in her last days, but the beautiful
young mother of long ago. To her at night she told the story of the trials and difficulties of the day, to her in the morning she
looked for sympathy and encouragement in whatever might be in store for her.
(14) So day by day she lived as in her mother's sight, striving still to please her as she had done in her lifetime, and careful
always to avoid whatever might pain or grieve her.
(15) Her greatest joy was to be able to look in the mirror and say, "Mother, I have been to-day what you would have me to be."
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