After making the fire, she took her work, and drew near the window, through which the cold faint rays of the morning were stealing.

By holding the work close to the light, she could see to set her needle, and in this way she commenced her daily toil.

An hour was spent in sewing, when Emma aroused up, and she had to lay by her work to attend to her child.
Ella, too, had awakened, and complained that her head ached badly, and that her throat was very sore.

Half an hour was spent in dressing, washing, and otherwise attending to her children, and then Mrs.Gaston went out to get something for breakfast.

On entering the shop of Mrs.Grubb, she met with rather a more courteous reception than had been given her on the morning previous.
"Ah! good-morning, Mrs.Gaston! Good-morning!" said that personage, with a broad, good-natured smile.