I shall meet him if God wills; and if not, I can still work--work." "I think, Mary, you'd better take the young woman upstairs, and make her sleep here to-night," said Mark, glad of an excuse to get rid of them; which, when he had done, he pulled his chair round in front of the fire, put a foot on each hob, and began rubbing his eyes vigorously.
"Dear me! Dear me! What a lot of good people there are in this old world, to be sure! Ten times better than me, at least--make one ashamed of oneself:--and if one isn't even good enough for this world, how's one to be good enough for heaven ?" And Mary carried Grace upstairs, and into her own bed-room.

A bed should be made up there for her.

It would do her good just to have anything so pretty sleeping in the same room.

And then she got Grace supper, and tried to make her talk: but she was distrait, reserved; for a new and sudden dread had seized her, at the sight of that fine house, fine plate, fine friends.

These were his acquaintances, then: no wonder that he would not look on such as her.