Promising to come over and see me early in the morning about the sewing, she withdrew, and I was left again to my own reflections.
"If ever a murmurer and complainer received a severe rebuke, it is I!" was the first almost audible thought that passed through my mind.

"To think that I, with my cup full and running over with blessings, should make myself and all around me unhappy, because a few minor things are not just to my satisfaction, while this woman, who toils like a slave from morning until night, and who can hardly procure food and clothing for her children, from whom she is almost constantly separated, is patient and hopeful, makes me feel as if I deserved to lose what I have refused to enjoy." On the next morning Mrs.Partridge called quite early.

She cut and fitted several frocks for the children, at which work she seemed very handy, and then took them home to make.

She sewed for me five weeks, and then got work in another family where I recommended her.

Since then, she has been kept constantly employed in sewing, at good prices, by about six families.