"It's so seldom I hear a compliment that I haven't learned to take them gracefully." "Godmother is waiting in the carriage for me," said Betty, pinning on her hat as she spoke, "or I'd help you pick them up.

I just hurried in to tell you while it was fresh in my mind, and I could remember the exact words.

I had no idea it would upset you so," she added, mischievously.
Left to herself, Mary soon gathered the beads back into the box and resumed her task.

She was making a pair of moccasins for Girlie Dinsmore's doll.

Her conscience still troubled her for playing stork, and she had resolved to spend some of her abundant leisure in making amends in this way.