Beautiful but Poor — page 156: what you’re looking at

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esis eg ee \. er pea aes € ! _. BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. = = ———S—=«&YA gare, that you had discovered a cousin for him. He was full of praises of ycu.”’ = “Vet it was not my act; I was but an instrument — ue in the hands of Pravatence to bring a long-abused = little girl to a loving mother. I feel thankful for — Be \ ee ee. ee) ee ey . oe 4 amy OOS f 4 3 it, for I have pitied the poor child so long, and until <4 oe 3 lately have hardly had a chance to befriend herasI —~ on ' wished to do. But now she is safe. It will be x 4 heaven on earth to her, this change.”’ § “T should think so. By the way, would you not like to visit her this morning:?”’ = “No, sir, not till afternoon. Then, if you will spare me a little while, I would like to keep my _ promise, and go to see both mother and child.” '. “Take the time, Miss Hattie, and any time you ' . desire, with pleasure. I have instructed the fore- man in consequence of the nature of your new work, you are to be entirely unrestricted, and no account of time kept with you, though your salary goes on.” 3 “Oh, Mr. W——, you are too kind!’ oe be: ‘No, Miss Hattie, and do not considermeso. The @ — ' new duties you perform are more-—valuable to us ' than you conceive. So consider that it is the firm, - not yourself, under obligation.”’ Hattie understood and felt the delicacy of his thoughts and words, and appreciated the true manli- ness of his heart; but she could only thank him— all other reward must come from his own conscious- ness of being kind to her. | Some way, during the morning, he had dropped out his idea of going to California to the foreman, - and Mr. Jones, who had of late taken to speaking to - Hattie much more often than he had formerly, spoke of it when he came to take some work to the sewing bench, which she had collated, ~ --comicbooks.com _