"I am sure we can well afford both to keep and to feed a servant, and to have a fire in the parlor every day.

Why not take our meals there, and sit there regularly of evenings ?" "We must," added Selina, decidedly.

"For my part, I couldn't eat, or sew, or do any thing with that great hulking girl sitting starting opposite, or standing; for how could we ask her to sit with us?
Already, what must she have thought of us--people who take tea in the kitchen ?" "I do not think that matters," said the eldest sister, gently, after a moment's silence.

"Every body in the town knows who and what we are, or might, if they chose to inquire.

We cannot conceal our poverty if we tried; and I don't think any body looks down upon us for it.