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102 MISS DALE. ‘<She treats Miss Dale shockingly. I don’t see why Miss Dale can’t hear our lessons as well as Aunt Margery. It is what she was hired for, and I should not blame her for. ae quitting any day, if she isso used. Just now Aunt Mar- | gery called her a fool. Who is Aunt Margery that she wi should call the true friend of the family Miss Dale has a proved herself, by a name like that?” Nora entered the room at that moment, and she said; ‘‘Miss Dale has been no better friend than Aunt Mar- gery, Vashti.” ‘That is your opinion, not mine, not mine.” ‘‘What advantage is it to her to do all she does for us?” ; ‘‘Selfish people have selfish reasons ; how should I know what hers are ?”’ Nora’s color rose at this aggravating reply ; a sharp an- swer was on her lips, but she checked herself in time, and her face burned deeper with a flush of shame than it had with anger just before. = ‘‘Can I forget so soon?” she said to herself, reproach- a fully. 4 ‘‘Did you hear your aunt say that?” asked Mrs. Ever- aa leigh ; ‘‘it doesn’t sound exactly like Margery.” a ‘‘T did not hear it, but Miss Dale did. - I had far rather she had said it to me; Miss Dale is the most forgiving crea- - 4 ture in the world. She told me of this, with tears in her “a eyes, at the same time begging me to say nothing about it ; a but I shall. Mamma, will you reprove Aunt Margery, or | shall I?” a ‘‘Reprove Margery, my child! what are you talking “9 about?” exclaimed Mrs. Everleigh, with an accent of pain. FE ‘Tt is plain enough what I am talking about; will you give Margery Gresham a lesson in politeness, or shall I?” | . is ; ey 2 . . K. “291 “ii od ae 7 © 1 - e. ~ > . r* Lhe 4 aa _ Ya i ' Ts i ee th < _—. ‘ape * a | tek Ry re See YE Y ioe EN