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"I assure you I have many friends among that class of people whom I respect and esteem; but since you have pressed me to continue this conversation I must frankly confess to you that my esteem is not based on the fact that they are called Christians. I but, Miss Ried, this is entirely unlike, and beneath me, to interfere with and shake your innocent, trusting faith.
Roberts had been asking a favor, instead of conferring one, her voice could not have been sweeter and more winning. Dirk went back to his sister, too much bewildered by the state of affairs even to express surprise. "Mart," he said, "she wants you." A quick spring to the sidewalk, and young Ried was standing beside Mart. "It is raining so hard," he explained, "Mrs.
The other item was productive of a dissertation on propriety from Mrs. Ried. Ralph and his father were in the back parlor, the former standing with one arm resting on the mantel while he talked with his father, who was half buried in a great easy chair that easy chair in his own elegant parlor, and his handsome son standing before him in that graceful attitude, were Mr.
"She is in earnest, Ried, and she has resources; but she won't catch them, simply because they don't mean to be caught; they come here to make trouble and for nothing else. Just look at the way they have performed to-day worse than ever, and they never had a better teacher. I've watched her, and I believe she knows how.
"I was unavoidably detained," he explained; "I feared you would grow weary of waiting. Ah, Ried, my wife has introduced herself, I see. Is he the young man you were speaking of, Mrs. Roberts?" "The very young man, Ester Ried's brother. He doesn't know how glad I am to have met him.
I never saw a more woeful figure in my life;" and Sadie laughed again at the recollection. "Yes," said Ester, "you uphold her in all sorts of mischief and insolence; that is the reason she is so troublesome to manage." Mrs. Ried looked distressed. "Don't, Ester," she said; "don't speak in that loud, sharp tone. Sadie, you should not encourage Julia in speaking improperly to her sister.
Many were the sympathetic glances that were bestowed on the young and pretty lady as she went to her task. As for Alfred Ried, there was more than sympathy in his face. He was vexed with the young volunteer and vexed with himself. He told himself savagely that this was what came of his silly habit of thinking aloud. If only he had kept his anxieties about that class to himself, Mrs.
It seems as though there was a great gulf between them and social advancement. How can we bridge it?" Then young Ried ventured his thought: "My sister Ester had a class in the Center Street Sabbath-school nice little girls, who wore pretty dresses, and had their hair curled, and came from the best families.
Ried, I want you to spend to-morrow evening with me. I have invited my boys, and I depend on you and Gracie here to help entertain them." "Are you equal to such formidable work as that?" asked Gracie, with a mischievous smile. He did not respond to the smile; he was looking at Mrs. Roberts, studying her face as one bewildered with the rapidity of her moves.
Such a two weeks as the last had been in the Ried family! The entire household had joined in the commotion produced by Ester's projected visit. It was marvelous how much there was to do. Mrs. Ried toiled early and late, and made many quiet little sacrifices, in order that her daughter might not feel too keenly the difference between her own and her cousin's wardrobe.
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