And, for some cause or other, that stinging thought returned no more; and she knelt and prayed like a little child; and like a little child slept sweetly all the night, and was away before breakfast the next morning, after feeding the canary and the cat, to old women who worshipped her as their ministering angel, and said, looking after her: "That dear Miss Mary, pity she is so plain! Such a match as she might have made! But she'll be handsome enough, when she is a blessed angel in heaven." Ah, true sisters of mercy, whom the world sneers at as "old maids," if you pour out on cats and dogs and parrots, a little of the love which is yearning to spend itself on children of your own flesh and blood! As long as such as you walk this lower world, one needs no Butler's Analogy to prove to us that there is another world, where such as you will have a fuller and a fairer (I dare not say a juster) portion.
* * * * * Next morning Mark started with Tom to call on Elsley, chatting and puffing all the way.
"I'll butter him, trust me.

Nothing comforts a poor beggar like a bit of praise when he's down; and all fellows that take to writing are as greedy after it as trout after the drake, even if they only scribble in county newspapers.

I've watched them when I've been electioneering, my boy!" "Only," said Tom, "don't be angry with him if he is proud and peevish.
The poor fellow is all but mad with misery." "Poh! quarrel with him?
whom did I ever quarrel with?
If he barks, I'll stop his mouth with a good dinner.

I suppose he's gentleman enough, to invite ?" "As much a gentleman as you and I; not of the very first water, of course.

Still he eats like other people, and don't break many glasses during a sitting.