The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1895-01-19

The Girl laughed. We'll. she said.
stopping suddenly, as if scared at the !
sound. L don know when have laughed |
before
oh. said Elizabeth Il didn know
| didn suppose-you mustn be offended |
i shouldn be- II am not coming /
to offer to help you 50 much as want you
to help--me =
Il look like it. said the other iou
will excuse me should like to help You.
but cannot leave my work one moment
And cannot spare the time to talk any /
more You see for yourself She added. /
in an undertone her eyes resting on the .
sick woman ON the bed. THAT | have no /
time for play.
That is just it. said Elizabeth. i
want to arrange it 50 that You shall have +
time for play. If you will just show me I
how you do it, | viii be glad to take your .
place every other week this winter ! am
sure that Is fair
4 haven the time To show You. (
have TO finish just ~ much work I
Then come home with me. and bring .
ycur mother and take good rest. !
1 should lo>e my job altogether if .
did anything of the sort. and | might not .
be able to get another (
Then lose it cried Elizabeth .
>pringine Ia her feet l. thai your +
mother2 Don YOU see that for her sake .
vou have no right :" refuse / Il store /
your things-
Ou things said Marian
And when YOU n all rested and built I
MP we will find YOU something better to I
do.
/ don know how to do anything bet
ter. was no, brought up to work This (
j. all can do
You shall learn something better We +.
haven much money but we have rnom /
and To spare and there plenty
Ne said the girl perhaps fortified /
hy the feeble motion of her mother head. 4
You are very --'d. But We have never 4.
tiken charity
1t i,nt charity It> friend who .
asks For visit
Marian laughed again. Il couldn 1 +
think Of IL she sand We have kept
in nur~elys, with our ufisfortnnes And
that !, al we ask And | mustn lo>e /
auy uore time Please to @u. Ii YOU /
want ta do good. Io,k further into the
cour, aud you will find people worse oH
than We are tiu,d by
think 1t Is wicked to be- ~o proud
said Elizabeth the tear~ -till sparkling
suppose you viii let me bring your
u,,4ber ,pme flower, and things might
carry to a nch friend
The siri hesitatc,l Il don know.
she said Personally We had rather mot
lnd hardly know why We >hould be the
subjects tor y"n Z" practise Your virtue
nu
Iuu ought To h. ashamed oi yuur~elf'
frisj Elizabeth Nou "ueht tn be
ashamed af yourself al over Just fr,m
Es-ay mran pride and rebellion against
fate suu arc dcpriviug your mn,her IT com.
fYrt. And WHY >houldn Won let me
lrassic, ms virue, a. you tail It. It that
de. me any e,.d Il woud make the
thiug even know what MIR Eli, w"ald
SAY ttNi hHFfN AHt HtN EtNAA fA ttt'
,swing machine drowned every oiher sound
the cyes werc el,,-ed in the white face an the
bed the girl. white aud intent was bent
ou her work and Elizabeth wen, uut and
sai down on the top step and cried.
Elifabeth did no, know wha, she wa> cry
ius f.r exaesly-,h repul>e the nrr,ou, cS-
sjtement the fact that there wa> - much
want aud sorrow in the world, perhaps
She was >till sitting there when Marian
herself eame cut the morse of the machine
having reasel with some warm water in a
h,tlr dish She started ou seeing Eliza
beth am sorry YOU tecl -, she said.
But If II i, thar you wan, 10 help trouble,
yoa can come with me and ! will show y"u
-.,nie. This j. ms meaning have
twenty minutes that | spend this way.
And She led the way down some hack en-
gTies and stairs ,a a r,om in the rear Of the
house a r,.,m where. although the npon
hehi was strong, scarcely any Of It casle
in. and where a mother with a black and
sweden hruise on her face >at nursing q
mi,-hapcn baby. a blind boy, whose eye
balls were reyoltiBs things Ia see. sal max
ing a fsh net an idiot tambled GA the
aoor, a. If a jelly-fsh were human vet
had nn ~oul, Elizabeth said afterwards
aud only an old woman with bandase
about her face hooked up IN welcome
Elizabeth saw Marian loosen the handage
take ,.,me bits Of cloth from her packet
aud proceeded Ia ~np the raw and bleeding
surface of the frightful sore with the warm
water. gently A. she might stroke the petal
Of a flower carefully and breathlessly, tlll
+ she had rleansed the place entirely put on
/ the esolins ss,lye and bound it up again.
I Then she gathered up the bitn Of cloth
+ / have 10 wash them, YOU know she
said to Elizabeth We have 81 little
cloth Then she stopped to praise the
blind boy work to glance at the drunken
man asleep on the straw bed in the corner
7 Of the foor and to speak word Of cheer
to the wife. 'Good-by. granny. ! will
come again tomorrow she said
The Lard bless We said the old
woman
If you can do that she said to Eliz
abeth. when they were outside the door,
Won viii be helping me more than in the
way YOU proposed,
Doit r. cried Elizabeth Do that
Oh. You don know what You are saying.
Ii made me sick to my soul. | shall never
be rid of that horrible odor. ''Oh. |
couldn't What are You made off
OF the same flesh and blood a. that
old woman. said the girl with her foot
on her own stair Il see that | was quite
right about YOU.
Stop = said Elizabeth, I will wash
out the rags. No. can tt can |
will briag you lots and lots Of soft new
ones for her 50 that they needn be washed.
oh. as she turned away. how can you
do il :?
Because | love her, said Marian,
slowly
Love her? Why, She can be any
thing 10 vou-that creature. 1t doesn
seem as if the same power made you both
When first saw her pitied her 50 |
had to help her; and then. after | had
helped her--oh. | don't know how or