Do you understand all that that means?
In our case it is as much as to say that it makes kind-hearted folks much happier to do others a pleasure than to receive good gifts.

You said just now that you were grateful; do you want now to spoil our pleasure ?" "I do not quite understand--" answered Selene.

"No ?" interrupted widow Hannah.

"Then only try for once to do some one a pleasure with sincere and heartfelt love, and you will see how much good it does one, how it opens the heart and turns every trouble to a pleasure.

Is it not true Mary, we shall he sincerely obliged to Selene if only she will not spoil the pleasure we have had in working for her ?" "I have been so glad to do it," said the deformed girl, "and there--now I have finished." "And I too," said the widow, pressing the last leaf on to its fellow with a cloth, and then adding her pile of finished sheets to Mary's.
"Thank you very much," murmured Selene, with downcast eyes, and rising from her seat, but she tried to support herself on her lame foot and this caused her such pain, that with a low cry, she sank back on the stool.