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 waste their health and bloom merely to keep body and soul together, uncared for by those enriched thereby.

An organic wrong, the monied interest will take no thought for, the selfishness of which will rear a barrier like adamant, and woe to the trembling hand that shall dare to raise the feeblest blow; but what power can resist the tongue of eloquence? Even selfishness stands aghast, and the little crevice through which the penetrating ray first finds an entrance closes and opens with every vibration of the popular heart, until the adamantine barrier gradually and unperceptibly crumbles away.

Mrs. Dayton was a woman of refined tastes and artistic perceptions, which, not being able to indulge on account of the grim master, poverty, that sat like a relentless tyrant at the threshold of her parental home, hurried her into the rash step that led to greater evils than poverty, seeing nothing before her but the menial occupations then open to woman. Cruelly deserted by her husband shortly before the birth of Milly, the extra exertions she was obliged to make to support them soon undermined her health. It was a pleasant room they occupied, where the morning glory shaded the window, and the air was fragrant with lilac and honeysuckle. Reared among such influences could Milly be other than poetic in her aspirations? She came like a blessed sunbeam to cheer her mother's soul, and when the tie was severed and the child left alone, a dependent on strangers, how like a crushing weight the blow came! As Mrs. Dayton had married in opposition to all her