"Mother knows you love her best, but she wishes for your sake, and especially since you are going to have advantages that she never had, that she was a little different." "I don't, I don't," said Ellen, fiercely.

"I want you just as you are, just exactly as you are, mother." Fanny laughed tearfully, and rubbed her coarse black head against Ellen's lovingly with a curious, cat-like motion, then bade her run away or she would not get her dress done.

A dressmaker was coming for a whole week to the Brewster house to make Ellen's outfit.

Mrs.
Zelotes had furnished most of the materials, and Andrew was to pay the dressmaker.

"You can take a little more of that money out of the bank," Fanny said.