As soon as her employer's claim was satisfied, and the weekly five shillings began to be paid, Clara remembered the promise she had volunteered to her father.

But John was once more at work; for the present there really seemed no need to give him any of her money, and she herself, on the other hand, lacked so many things.

This dress plainly would not be suitable for the better kind of engagement she had in view; it behoved her first of all to have one made in accordance with her own taste.

A mantle, too, a silk umbrella, gloves--It would be unjust to herself to share her scanty earnings with those at home.
Yes; but you must try to understand this girl of the people, with her unfortunate endowment of brains and defect of tenderness.

That smile of hers, which touched and fascinated and made thoughtful, had of course a significance discoverable by study of her life and character.