I can take care of myself." "What can you do ?" Hugh asked, and Adah replied: "I don't know, but God will find me something.

I never worked much, but I can learn, and I can already sew neatly, too; besides that, a few days before I decided to come here, I advertised in the _Herald_ for some place as governess or ladies' waiting maid.

Perhaps I'll hear from that." "It's hardly possible.

Such advertisements are thick as blackberries," Hugh said, and then in a few brief words, he marked out Adah's future course.
George Hastings might or might not return to claim her, and whether he did or didn't, she must live meantime, and where so well as at Spring Bank, or who, next to Mr.Hastings, was more strongly bound to care for her than himself ?" "To be sure, he did not like women much," he said; "their artificial fooleries disgusted him.

There wasn't one woman in ten thousand that was what she seemed to be.