Then I can easily finish it in time.

You know a vest is only a day's work for a good sewer, and I have nearly a day and a half before me." "Yes; but you must remember, Ellen, that you are not very fast with your needle, and are, besides, far from being well.

The work, too, is of the most particular kind, and cannot be hurried." "Don't fear for me in the least, Mary.

I will do all I have engaged to do," and the young woman, who had already arranged the cut-out garment, took a portion of it in her lap and commenced her task.
The two sisters, here introduced, were poor, in bad health, and without friends.

Mary, the older, had declined rapidly within a few months, and become so much exhausted as to be obliged to keep her bed most of the time.