I am telling you the sober truth--mother would endorse it.

Do you think I do not owe her a life's service and love for all her dear care of me!" "If I am tired, I glory in my fatigue, for it is for my adopted mother and her poor that I am working;" and Anna's eyes were very soft and bright.

"Malcolm, you have no idea how much happier she is now I share her work.

I know she never complained of her loneliness--it is not her way to complain--but she has missed Florence so terribly.

We talk of her sometimes, mother and I," continued the girl thoughtfully, "and she tells me what a sweet daughter she would have been, and how we should have been sisters.