"Very different, indeed." "But it's earning money, working for money, all the same," continued Mercy; "and you haven't the least idea how mother feels about that.

Father must have been full of queer notions.

She got it all from him.

But I can't see that there is any difference between a woman's taking money for what she can do, and a man's taking money for what he can do.

I can do sewing, and you can preach; and of the two, if people must go without one or the other, they could do without sermons better than without clothes,--eh, Mr.
Allen ?" and Mercy laughed mischievously.