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Rh, those that form wrong judgements by looks must—" she checked her resentment and stopped. "Must what? you may as well out with it."

"Must answer for it themselves, Mrs. Simson." "Ma," interposed Miss Aurelia, "how can you let your help be so impudent to you?" Master Julius stood by, and taking a different view of the case, said, "If ma is sarcy to her help, she must expect her help to be sarcy to her."

But we are tired (we are sure our readers must be) of detailing the petty abuses of a griping, vulgar mistress. Lucy endured them patiently for some months, and till Mrs. Simson became impatient of regularly paying the four dollars, instead of putting off, in part payment, some useless thing that gave her the agreeable feeling of having got a bargain out of the person on whom she imposed.

It happened, not half an hour after Lucy had received her warning to look for another place, that Charles Lovett, while delivering the bread, said, "Mother has found a capital place for Annet, and she leaves us next week."

"And I leave here next week." Charles snapped his fingers, but said never a word. A few minutes afterward Mrs. Lovett sent for Lucy, and engaged her to supply Annet's place.