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Rh too, she's had a by ordinary education, as no doubt her father was the man to give it. Your mother has said, and I mean to stand to it, that she should have share and share alike with your sisters; but yet I fancy she would feel more independent, and there would be less chance of her being wiled away from Branxholm if she had a regular sum by the year for her services. It's a great saving to me to be able to keep Isabel and Phemie at home, and I think the house is blither with them too; so if you and Amy could settle what it was fair for such a young thing as her to get, I would like it better than the way things are going on now."

"I think that of all the family I am most indebted to Amy," said Allan.

"That's true, and I keep that in mind too; but now you are working on your own account you may be able to pay her back somehow or other. You're both young, but wait a hit; and in the meantime you'll speak to Amy and tell her what I mean."

"It is just like your honest straightforward self that you'll take no advantage of my work, nor of that of the stranger who was thrown upon your charity," said Allan.

Amy was astonished to hear that Mr. Lindsay thought her services worth money; but