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144 ROXY HASTINGS. see them, I will bring them over day after to-morrow to spend Sunday with me.” “Oh! I should like to go to Hoboken—it’s a charming place. If you will allow me, I will—” “Oh, certainly, if it is not too much trouble. I shall be glad to have company.” “We will consider it an engagement then,” answered Jedediah, and the word sounded strangely in the lady’s ears, who well knew that no double entente was meant. Thus ended the first condolence, CHAPTER XXVIII. CHANGED FORTUNES. ‘‘Mamma, it is impossible to stay here another week un- less we have fall bonnets and dresses,” said Henrietta Bright, that evening, with an anxious look, quite in con- trast with her recent mirthfulness. ‘‘If we are really as poor as you say do let us get off and hide ourselves in the country as quick as possible. Iam ashamed to go out.” ‘“Tt’s terrible to be so poor,” said Nelly, the second daughter, ‘‘but perhaps it won’t be so bad when we get out of New York, where there’s nobody to see us.” ‘‘Ah! you are much mistaken, Nelly. There’ll be enough to see us, and crow over us wherever we go. But as they ion be strangers, perhaps it won’t be quite so hard to ear.” “T don’t know,” replied the mother, thoughtfully. ‘I expect an answer every day about that house in Nyack. But there’s positively no money for dress now. I can just pay our board, and the children’s board and_ schooling, out of the funds in hand, and what we are to do I don’t know. Part of our little principal will have to go for furniture when we do get the house, and then our income will be re- duced by so much.” . , ‘‘And there’ll be rent, and provisions, and fuel.” ‘‘And clothes, and schooling, and a hundred little things,’’ resumed the mother. Les ‘‘It’s terrible to be poor,” repeated Nelly. ‘‘There’s the ‘Misses Gobleigh we met this afternoon, so magnificently dressed, just returned from Saratoga, and going for a month to Newport. They looked so superciliously at us while they told us about it, that I felt as if I should drop.” Eomicbooks.co