Beautiful but Poor — page 173: what you’re looking at

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164 BEAUTIFUL BUT POOR. © to Mr. Legare’s, and simply explain that you were called away by the sickness of a relative.’’ “Thank you; that will be enough. Tell them I will go to see them when I return.” A grasp of the hand, a tearful good-by, and the. honest, noble man, the pure, truthful woman, were upart—he standing gloomily alone in his office, she on her way, walking fast, toward her boarding- house. Entering that, she found Biddy, sae Monat and Miss Scrimp all in the kitchen. She handed Miss Scrimp the amount of her board for the week, then giving her the additional dollar for her silk dress, she said: “T pay my part of the proposed subscription for the silk dress, Miss Scrimp.”’ Then turning to Biddy Lanigan, she said: “‘You have always been very good to me, Biddy. Here is a five dollar bill for you to use aS you choose.” ‘‘Long life an’ more power to ye, ye born angel!’’ cried Biddy; ‘‘who could help bein’ kind to the likes o’ you? Sure there’s not a lady in the land can hold her head higher than your own.”’ “Thank you, Biddy. Now, Miss Scrimp, I am going away for a few days, and shall lock up my room, for I leave my trunk, books, and everything except my little hand-satchel there.’’ ‘‘Sakes alive! where be you a-goin’?”’’ ‘To visit a sick relative, and I shall return as soon as I can.”’ ‘“Sakes alive!” Those were the last words Hattie heard as she turned and hurried to her room. Half an hour later she came down aréeaga ina traveling suit of heavy brown pongee, with a bon- comicbooks.co aa J