Beautiful but Poor — page 63: what you’re looking at

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4 BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. Jessie slipped in, dropped the paper over Miss Scrimp’s shoulder on the table, and was out of the room so quickly that Miss Scrimp did not know who brought the note. But she trembled and turned pale when she read it. 3 | ‘‘T wonder if that little brat of a bound girl has dared to tell her about the letter?’’? she ejaculated. ‘““No,’’ she continued, ‘‘it can’t be that. Jess knows I’d skin her alive if she told, and she’d bite her tongue off first. Ill bet Miss Hattie wants to take a room lower down, now that she is getting more than twice as much money a week as any other girl in the house gets. That’s it; Pll gorightup. She is real good pay, always cash down the day it is due, and no grumbling. I’ll give her the best room in the house, and turn that saucy Kate Marmont away, if she objects to giving it up. I wish I’d set Biddy Lanigan a-going at her to-night; she would have wished the gray hairsin her butter had got cross ways in her throat before she talked about ’em.”’ And Miss Scrimp closed up her old account book, took up her hand-lamp, and started up the steep, narrow, and dirty stairs toward Hattie Butler’s room. She had been so surprised that she had not even asked: herself who could have left the note, nor even thought how it came floating down on her table. Almost breathless, she reached the landing in front of Hattie’s room, and knocked at the door. ‘Come in,”’ said Hattie, in a clear, distinct tone. Hattie was sitting on her bed; her only chair was between her and the door, near the table, and when Miss Scrimp took the seat Hattie pointed to, the 3 ~ comicbooks co