20/32 Who has been near you ?--who has been speaking to you to make you cry so ?" "Oh, Mrs Mason." And there was a fresh burst of sorrow. She was so angry; she said I must never show my face there again. Oh, dear! what shall I do ?" It seemed to the poor child as if Mrs Mason's words were irrevocable, and, that being so, she was shut out from every house. She saw how much she had done that was deserving of blame, now when it was too late to undo it. She knew with what severity and taunts Mrs Mason had often treated her for involuntary failings, of which she had been quite unconscious; and now she had really done wrong, and shrank with terror from the consequences. |