Can I see want stealing in upon my children, and sit and fold my hands supinely?
No! And to you, Edith, my oldest child, I look for aid and for counsel.

Stand up bravely by my side." "And you are in earnest in all this ?" said Edith, whose mind seemed hardly able to realize the truth of their position.

From her earliest days, all the blessings that money could procure had been freely scattered around her feet.

As she grew up and advanced towards womanhood, she had moved in the most fashionable circles, and there acquired the habit of estimating people according to their wealth and social standing, rather than by qualities of mind.

In her view, it appeared degrading in a woman to enter upon any kind of employment for money; and with the keeper of a boarding-house, particularly, she had always associated something low, vulgar, and ungenteel.