But do you think you can ever make any thing out of Elizabeth?
Her month ends to-morrow.

Shall we let her go ?" "And perhaps get in her place a story-teller--a tale-bearer--even a thief.

No, no; let us 'Rather bear the ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of;' and a thief would be worse than even a South Sea Islander." "Oh yes, my dear," said Johanna, with a shiver.
"By-the-by, the first step in the civilization of the Polynesians was giving them clothes.

And I have heard say that crime and rags often go together; that a man unconsciously feels that he owes something to himself and society in the way of virtue when he has a clean face and clean shirt, and a decent coat on.

Suppose we try the experiment of dressing Elizabeth.