too often not in proportion their desert but accord ing to their effect on the convenience of their em mrs was under a strong impulse and she proceeded in that most delicate of all operations � reform mary she said i perceive that you are getting uneasy like all the girls mary was suffering from and loss of spirits the almost certain consequence of top close a confinement to a employment she burst into tears don t be troubled mary i did not mean to reproach you resumed mrs servants are always they shall like some other work better than that they are doing � it s the old story each one is eager to lay down his particular burden and glad enough to take if i live and let live up i was not the least offended if you had seriously proposed going away i should to be sure have thought you very absurd and ungrateful � indeed indeed mrs i am not but what surely you do not in earnest mean to leave me � i must ma am the doctor says i am getting a liver complaint nd i can never be cured if i don t take to some stirring work mary how absurd you have been to some goose of a doctor it is a great deal harder to do stirring work as you call it than to sit at your needle i will speak to doctor smith about you you know i have always told you that you might have our own physician free of expense thank you ma am but i am sure my own doctor is right he says he will not impose medicine on me it will only make the matter and i feel what he says to be true and you really mean to leave me t i must mrs well you must do as you think fit but i doubt if you find a better place mary was silent her tears stiu flowed there was something like a in mrs s words and still more in her manner which repressed the expression of the gratitude mary deeply felt for all the and kindness she had received at mrs s hand and the lady left her with the conviction that as she soon after said to a friend mary was just like all other servant girls let say what she will they are an ungrateful pack mr and i have made mary presents upon presents i have never counted her lost days and i have never spoken a harsh word to her and now she is going away when she knows how important she is to me just because some absurd doctor has put it into her head that sewing don t agree with her if mrs had understood the first principles of and she was perfectly capable of them and if she had felt the duties of her station and applied these principles to the persons cast upon her care mary would not have lost her health and they might have con to the end of their lives to live together with benefit instead of parting with smothered reproaches on the one side for and smothered gratitude on the other for the of virtues that after all were merely virtues of constitution after one or two other attempts at re form mrs to her old mode of ing with the current and letting things take their own way convinced she said there was no use in trying to have matters too perfect our conclusion is that old in families as in states are not of sudden ot e � y and live chapter ix said you know you have the dishes to do to day it s my sunday out but i did not have my sunday out last sunday you know mrs � that was not my fault nor was it mine said who had the strongest motive for maintaining her rights wanted to go out and mrs said if i would stay and amuse the children i should go home to day and had well earned the performance of the promise for mrs said she had never known the children so quiet � she and mr had got their sunday s nap without once hearing them the secret of this was that finding it sorely against her conscience to pass the sacred day in picking up and dressing had kept the children still and most happy too by telling them sunday stories she had heard from h r mother left the kitchen for a few moments and presently the bell rung twice the summons for � i am sorry to disappoint you said mrs but i entirely forgot it was s sunday out can t i set the dishes aside ma am and wash them when i come home no nothing puts out so much as that � you know we must mind our p s and q s with don t look so dismal child � it s waiting till to morrow j will think it s for ever waiting till tomorrow oh that little broken back brother you told me about � never mind i ll give you some of the children s old to carry to him tomorrow he is not fond of mrs ar ey he can t play with them � well books then � picture books s face brightened she had often thought how happy it would make to possess a few of the books the children were tossing about the nursery thank you mrs she said nothing would please so much it will make the time seem shorter when i am away and half consoled and but half she returned to the kitchen where greeted her with you ll find miss lee you ll never get the upper hands of me so you may as well give up first as last telling about burnt or trying to keep me at 