Good-bye, Sylvia." "Good-bye," said Sylvia.

She hesitated a moment, then she said: "Don't you mind, Lucinda.

Henry and I think just the same of you as we've always thought, and there's a good many besides us.

You haven't any call to feel bad." "I don't feel bad," said Lucinda.

"I've got spunk enough and grit enough to bear any load that I 'ain't heaped on my own shoulders, and the Lord knows I 'ain't heaped this.