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There are not many of them after all in our letters, and when once a person has conquered them it is easy to put them together." There was more talk, easy and social. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, the doctor, and Gracie seemed equally interested in the project, and questioned young Ried, until he assured them that he began to feel like a veritable professor. Apparently the boys were forgotten.
And yet I cannot tell you how it made me feel to discover, or at least to realize, that a great deal of it was my work! Of course, I naturally began to ask myself, what Gentile was there for me to reach? Whose eyes must I try to open? Do you know, that very afternoon I met Mr. Ried, and heard of those boys?
Not sullenly and crossly selfish by any means, only so used to think of self, so taught to consider herself utterly useless as regarded home, and home cares and duties, that she opened her bright brown eyes in wonder whenever she was called upon for help. It was a very bright and very busy Saturday morning. "Sadie!" Mrs. Ried called, "can't you come and wash up these baking dishes?
Ried sighed heavily, and Sadie turned away and ran up stairs, humming: "Oh, would I were a buttercup, A blossom in the meadow." And Julia, in her mother's room, exchanged her wet and muddy garments for clean ones, and cried; washed her face in the clear, pure water until it was fresh and clean, and cried again, louder and harder; her heart was all bruised and bleeding.
She turned to answer his question; her face bright, yet half puzzled: "I am not sure that I can explain to you what I hoped for," she said; "I caught the idea from Mr. Ried." "From me!" and the young man thus mentioned looked so astonished and incredulous that Gracie laughed. "He is sure he never thought of anything so wild," she said, gayly. "Flossy, you must find a better excuse than that."
There was another voice in the front parlor a strong, vigorous voice that carried a sense of power with it. "Ah!" said Ried, his eyes bright, his face eager; "that is Dr. Everett. Just study him if you want another type of the sort of Christian about whom we have been talking; the grandest man!" Gracie, shielded by the distance, turned on her stool and studied him.
Roberts has never found it convenient to do so before, there were reasons why he thought it would be well to have a clerk within call; so Mr. Colson boards with what was the junior partner of the firm. He is so no more, by the way, for Mr. Ried has been received as a member, and is decidedly a junior partner. Probably Mr.
Does it require a great deal of gravity, mother? Here, Robin Redbreast, keep your beak out of my dish-pan." Minnie, in the mean time, had been seated on the table, directly in front of the dish-pan. Mrs. Ried looked around. "O Sadie! what possessed you to put her up there?" "To keep her out of mischief, mother.
"And I," said poor Sallie, catching her breath with a sob, "have been often for a walk on the brightest streets, and looked in at the shop windows, and everything. I 'most know I will help her to go if I can." Young Ried had no conception of the sacrifice for which he had asked.
In the library waited Gracie and Mr. Ried, while Mrs. Roberts went merrily to see whether the boys or their host had proved the stronger. "I don't believe this part of the programme will work," Alfred said, confidently, the moment the door closed after Mrs. Roberts. "Those fellows will all be afraid of Mr. Roberts, and we shall lose what little hold we have on them."
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