with reproaches for broken promises and then when her appetite failed she used to live on and cakes and such as s doctor told her god has written laws in our and if we break them we pay for it but how do you manage � your cheeks are as as roses i began with an excellent tion and knowing the value of health watched over it she made me follow her new york doctor s rules about washing myself washing yourself i should like to know if everybody don t wash themselves i am sure sally baker and jane mills too were neat so they were but few even of neat people know the importance of daily bathing the whole person and rubbing it with a coarse doth that s what i call ton may call it what you please but x believe that and my clothes the bed and the house and room ha e kept my cheeks as you say fresh as roses never lets me sit more than two hours at a time at my needle she all me to do a or run of an errand she will not let me one day rain or shine without exercise in the open air neither cold wet nor hurts me as to my that s natural to me but has helped to that up too by taking care that i don t get at by my customers she never t� ould let me make a promise that i was not sure of performing i often get my work done beforehand and i take to fit and please and somehow i our folks are easy to please and smiles smiles you know � if they are pleased i and and then it s such a heart comfort to keep the family together now father is getting old and feeble after all i guess said her with ominous of the lips you ll not always be so maybe not but i don t believe in trouble it may c without � they say it s a bad sign to feel too well i don t believe in signs you may � they say everybody believes after it comes to pass bo you mean any thing in particular asked struck more by her companion s tone than her words if you do pray speak out have you seen f tc poor rich is she in yes her mother s husband is dead and thej have come back here to live and they say the old man left the widow a fortune and is dressed as if it was all in fine and a down to her feet and a black bead bag and every thing though yon know she did not scruple to say she hated the old man while he was alive i am sorry she so she was always fond of outside show but i remember harry used to say that was natural she was so handsome don t you think it strange that some people can be so taken up with beauty t oh i don t know i like to lo at every thing that is beautiful but should you think that such a person as harry would put beauty before every thing � i don t think he does replied keeping her eyes to her work and slightly blushing well i don t know whether it is the beauty or the fortune but it must be one or the other or both � for i am sure in other respects yon are far enough before and everybody thought harry was paying attention to you before he left harry was always like a brother to and me replied her voice a little tremulous like a brother to he might have been but he was more like something else to you and everybody thought so and everybody don t know every thing rejoined her eyes still to her work and her heart throbbing so that it seemed to her her companion must hear it well now continued the gossip may be candid and own if yo should hear that harry was going to marry should not you feel as if he had deceived you r no replied now speaking firmly and looking her companion full in the face if all the world and thought harry paid me particular attention � and if i sometimes had thought to too and if he to morrow i should think we were all mistaken and harry true hearted well be put to the trial for as good as owned to me her expectations but i am sorry for your disappointment for you can t but say tis a disappointment said nothing and her proceeded it s nothing new nor strange them that has not any interest must expect to be and i have often heard that when young men get to new york all they think of is making money and getting a wife that will make a show with it and you say yourself that harry thought a beauty made no reply and having succeeded in making her uncomfortable began to feel very much so herself from the effect of s quiet dignity and much to s satisfaction she cut short her visit and disappeared when interest is sense property poor rich man entered a few after she found su an work had dropped on the floor and she was leaning her head on the chair and sobbing this was a strange sight for let the clouds be ever so heavy there was a of blue sky where was inquiries and explanations followed s heart was turned inside out not a thought feeling prostrate hope or piercing regret was concealed from who though in a more subdued manner was scarcely less grieved than when they could talk calmly about it said come what will i never shall blame harry in the least you know how many times he has said 