[Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic]@TWC D-Link bookPoor and Proud CHAPTER VII 4/12
If you leave them without resenting their insults, the chances are that they will be ashamed of themselves before you get out of sight.
You need not be low and vile because others are." "I guess you are right, mother." "You know what the Bible says: 'If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink, for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.'" "I won't say a word, mother, whatever they say to me.
I'll be as meek as Moses." "I hope you will not be gone long," added Mrs.Redburn. "I have thirty sticks of candy here.
I don't think it will take me long to sell the whole of them.
I shall be back by dinner time whether I sell them or not for you know I must go to Mrs.Gordon again to-day. Now, good-by, mother, and don't you worry about me, for I will do everything just as though you were looking at me." Katy closed the door behind her, and did not see the great tears that slid down her mother's pale cheek as she departed.
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