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"Well, what is it?" said Ellen; "I know you have thought of something." "It is like the fragrance that Christian society sometimes leaves upon the spirit; when it is just what it ought to be." "My Mr. Marshman!" exclaimed Ellen. John smiled again. "I thought of him, Ellie. And I thought, also, of Cowper's lines:
He put up his eye-glass to look at the Hooper children; he said vaguely, "I hope that some day you and Mrs. Hooper will descend upon us in Rome;" and then he hurried his wife away with the audible remark "We really must get to Blenheim, Ellie, in good time. You promised the Duchess " So ill-bred so snobbish to talk of your great acquaintances in public!
How proud she felt when Saturday came, and she knew she would have two dollars and a half to take home! Unfortunately, it was to be dearly gained. Saturday afternoon it happened that the store was unusually crowded; everything was stir and confusion. Little Ellie and her companions dashed now here, now there, in response to the unceasing cry of "Cash! Cash!"
"I did not know where you were. I have not been in England for many months till quite lately, and I could not get your address. I think my father was without it for a long time, and when at last he sent it to me, the letter miscarried never reached me there were delays upon delays." "And when did you get it?" "I preferred coming to writing." "And now you must go home so soon!" "I must, Ellie.
"Are you not happy here?" "Yes, I am happy; at least I thought I was half an hour ago as happy as I can be. I have everything to make me happy, except what would do it." "We must both have recourse to our old remedy against sorrow and loneliness; you have not forgotten the use of it, Ellie?" "No, John," said Ellen, meeting his eyes with a tearful smile. "They love you here, do they not?"
The father was a day-laborer; the mother went out washing; Joe, a boy of fourteen, was in the district messenger service; after him came Katy, who was employed in McNaughton's store; and then Ellie, the little invalid. Two younger children had died in infancy. Poor Ellie was fast becoming helpless. How different it had been a few months before!
And her eyes flashed, for one moment, clear, white, blazing light; but the children could not read her name; for they were dazzled, and hid their faces in their hands. "Not yet, young things, not yet," said she, smiling; and then she turned to Ellie. "You may take him home with you now on Sundays, Ellie.
So all that good little Ellie could say was, that it was worth all the rest of the world put together. And of course that only made Tom the more anxious to go likewise. "Miss Ellie," he said at last, "I will know why I cannot go with you when you go home on Sundays, or I shall have no peace, and give you none either." "You must ask the fairies that." So when the fairy, Mrs.
I am often forgetting and displeasing him now never serving him well nor loving him right. I shall be glad to find myself where all that will be done with for ever. I shall be like him! Why do you cry so, Ellie?" said Alice, tenderly. "I can't help it, Alice."
Those long white hands, now linked together with a chain, hadn't I seen them holding up a woman's filmy draperies? "Speak, Ellie," my father's voice said. "Can't you tell us?" It brought me back from my fancies with a great start, and before I knew what I was saying I had stammered out, "Yes."
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