I've something to tell you," and she looked so gay and happy that they felt quite sure it was something that pleased her greatly.
"I think I can guess what it is," laughed Rosie; "your father has promised you the diamond ring you want so badly." "No, it isn't that; you may have another guess; but I don't believe you could hit the right thing if you should guess fifty or a hundred times." "Then I sha'n't try.

I give it up.

Don't you, Eva ?" "Yes, please tell us, Lu," said Evelyn.
Then Lulu, talking fast and eagerly, repeated to them what she had told to Grace, in bed that morning.
"Oh how nice!" Evelyn exclaimed.

"How I should like to be in your place, Lu!" "I think it's nice, too," Rosie said, "and I'd like mamma or grandpa to do the same by me.

But I'd want my pearls too," she added, laughing.
"Mamma's rich enough to give me them, and do all she need do for missions and the poor beside." "But so very, very much is needed," remarked Evelyn.
"I've read in some of the religious papers, that if every church member would give but a small sum yearly, there would be enough," said Rosie; "and mamma gives hundreds and thousands of dollars; and grandpa gives a great deal too.