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 "I have told you my story—it proved sickness to me and death to my child,"

"C'est bien ridicule!" exclaimed Adéle; "you desolate madame—and you very well know madame is very charitable."

"I was not after wanting charity, but my own, that madam had, and I could not get." "Well, pray, Margery, say no more about it—it is all paid now"

"Yes, Mrs. Hartell, but paid too late."

We trust such evil consequences as Margery suffered from the want of punctuality in the employer's payment do not often occur, but they are not without a parallel. Is it not very common for ladies, far more from thoughtlessness than meditated injustice, to delay the payment of wages? Is there not a culpable inconsiderateness of the rights as well as necessities of a large class, including tradespeople and humble creditors of every sort, in that common reply to their demands, "Call again?"