Indeed, without giving the matter special thought, she was surprised to discover that, with one or two exceptions, the people Miss Ercildoune sent her were of the peaceful and quiet sect.

This bird of brilliant plumage seemed ill assorted with the sober-hued flock.
She found in this same bird a helper in more ways than one.

It was not alone that she gave her employment and paid her well, nor that she sent her others able and willing to do the same.

She found Frankie a good school, and saw him properly installed.

She never came to them empty-handed; through the long, hot summer-time she brought them fruit and flowers from her home out of town; and when she came not herself, if the carriage was in the city it stopped with these same delightful burdens.