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Rh the slight fingers were tolerably steady while asking.

The next morning Mrs. Beaumont was down rather earlier than usual, and found Fanny, as had been settled, very busy over her work. "I shall dismiss you from my service," said she smiling, "for Edith is so handy, and I know how much there is to do."

"I shall grow jealous," replied Fanny, forcing a laugh, and from that time Edith took her place. This was a great point gained, for Mrs. Beaumont required many little personal services, which Fanny had feared her sister with her infirmity would be incapable of rendering. A fortnight of anxious expectation past by: the fortnight became three weeks, and Fanny found herself at the end of their carefully hoarded pittance, and Mrs. Beaumont had, from finding Sarah crying in the garden, and questioning her, learnt the old woman's wish to give up the shop and cottage. She hurried to the parlour where she had left Fanny at work, and found the poor girl worn out