"Lottie says she has tow hair and a face like a fish.

John would never be happy with such a wife." "Possibly you think he had better have married that sewing girl about whom he wrote us just before going to Europe," Miss Eudora said spitefully, pinching the long silken ears of her pet until the animal yelled with pain.
There was a faint sigh from the direction of Anna's chair, and all knew she was thinking of the missionary.

The mother continued: "I trust he is over that fancy, and ready to thank me for the strong letter I wrote him." "Yes, but the girl," and Anna leaned her white cheek in her whiter hand.
"None of us know the harm his leaving her may have done.

Don't you remember he wrote how much she loved him--how gentle and confiding her nature was, and how to leave her then might prove her ruin ?" "Our little Anna is growing very eloquent upon the subject of sewing girls," Miss Asenath said, rather scornfully, and Anna rejoined: "I am not sure she was a sewing girl.

He spoke of her as a schoolgirl." "But it is most likely he did that to mislead us," said the mother.