leave my mother without help you were the only child i ve got a sister but somehow she didn t care to go out to work and so i had to go out to service and i heard that more was paid in where i ve got an aunt an i had enough to take me out an i thought maybe i d get my mother out there some day or i d get money enough to make her comfortable what kind of work will you do in new york y i don t believe we ve got any mills i think we get irish linen table and so on oh i m going out to service i can t do heavy work but i can do s work all this time was turning a quarter over in her pocket it was the only american coin she had carried with her through europe and she now took it out slowly and said you ll accept a little something for your kindness in saving my hat i m much obliged miss but i d rather not i d rather have your kind words than any money it s very i ve been since i left she put the quarter back into her pocket with something like shame then she her rings in a strange embarrassment she had made a mess of it she thought at the same time she was glad the girl had so much pride what is your name she asked margaret you must let me help you in some way said miss at last i wonder what kind of people they are in new york now said margaret looking at wistfully it seems dreadful to go so far away and not know in whose house you ll be looked steadily at the girl and then went away promising to see her again she smiled at walter a story had finished his game of and was looking all np and down the deck for miss she did not stop to talk with him however but pushed on to where her mother and father were sitting not far from the mamma i ve been out in the you ll be in the next i don t doubt said her father laughing i ve been talking to the irish girl that caught my hat yesterday you shouldn t talk to people said mrs they might have the or they might not be proper people i suppose cabin passengers might have the too said mr who liked to either wife or daughter i offered the irish girl a quarter and she wouldn t have it you re too free with your money said her mother in a tone of complaint that was habitual the girl wouldn t impose on you said mr she s honest she knew that your hat wasn t worth so much now if you had said fifteen cents � o papa be still and she put her hand over his mouth i want to propose something going to adopt the irish � but here s hand again arrested mr s speech no i m not going to adopt her but i want mamma to take her for upstairs girl when we get home mr made another effort to push away s hand so as to say something but the girl smothered his speech into a i couldn t think of it she s got no and no character maybe she has got her character in her pocket you don t know broke out the father that s where some girls carry their character till it s worn out i ll give her a character said she is a lady if she is a servant that s just what i don t want said mrs with a a servant oh well we must try her how s the girl to get a character if nobody tries her and she s real splendid i think going off to get money to help her mother and i m sure she s had some great sorrow or disappointment you know she s got such a wistful look in her face and when i spoke about she said � there you are again exclaimed the father you ll have a heroine to make your bed every morning but you d better keep your drawers locked for all that now i think that s mean and the young girl a story tried to look stern but the severity vanished when mr of the senior class in college came up to inform miss that the young people were about getting up a party miss accepted the invitation to join in that saying as she departed let s try her anyway if she wants her i suppose i shall have to take her but i wish she had more sense than to go to the for a servant she could hardly find one in the cabin ventured mr so it happened that on arrival in new york margaret was as second girl at the for in an american home the authority is often divided � the mother has the name of ruling the household which the daughter actually how much has the setting to do with a romance the old tales had castles with savage forests and supplied with and galleries leading to where it was necessary to go in the s emergency in our times we like to lay our scenes on a ground of with of lace curtains and oil paintings how then shall i make you understand the real human loves and sorrows that often have play in a girl s heart where there are no better stage than stationary and kitchen was sure that the pretty maid from whose melancholy showed itself through the veil of her perfect health had suffered a disappointment she watched her as she went silently about her work of sweeping and and she knew by a sort 