Beulah

iss Dorothea White. Her heart throbbed painfully, and her hand trembled as she rang the be

e miss, what

Martin

re in the front parlor-suppose you sit down in th

haps," thought she, "they will permit me to read some of them." While she sat looking over the

with a searching look, which

orning,

ite promised to send from

, ma

u can take good

I wil

rong and healthy-h

very well,

some, occasionally, w

m and stit

ery well, madam-ou

iss White told me, bu

ah Be

eful and attend to my directions. I am just going out shopping, but yo

will send

e workstand groaning beneath the superincumbent mass of sewing, finished and unfinished garments, working materials, and, to crown the whole, the lady's winter hat. A girl, apparently about thirteen years of age, was seated by the fire, busily embroi

eulah," said

llow testified no fear of her. She raised him in her arms,

name?" said the youngest girl, laying down

is Beulah," replied the mo

e whisper to her sister. The latter gave Beulah a condescending stare, curled her lips di

e fire; and if he fr

to find his cup of a

here till I

o down and practice my music lesson,"

Annie, stay

"-pointing to Beulah- "can take care of Johnn

come home, Miss Annie; do you hear

uld not keep her blue-bead eyes open. Beulah loved children, and Johnny forcibly reminded her of earlier days, when she had carried Lilly about in her arms. For som

e give me the b

nything about i

s Harr

the

nt, and watching the little figure opposite. Annie was trying to fit a new silk waist to her doll, but it was too broad one way and too narrow another. She

ugly thing! My Lucia neve

discarded waist,

fit, by taking up this seam a

t belie

ll and the scissors,

ll'; call her by her proper name," answered the spoiled child, handing ov

enough. About two o'clock Mrs. Martin returned, inquired after Johnny, and again absented herself to "see about dinner." Beulah was very weary of the close, disordered room, and as the babe amused himself with his ivory rattle, she swept the floor, dusted the furniture, and arran

sh any," ans

ngly about Eugene's age, entered the room. He looked curiously at B

Laura?" he asked, in

nough! but she is horribly ugly,"

Patton, the lecturer on physiogno

orehead juts over, like the eaves

position commanded a fine view of the town, and on the eastern horizon the blue waters of the harbor glittered with "silvery sheen." At any other time, and with different emotions, Beulah's love of the beautiful would have been particularly gratified by this extended prospect; but now the whole possessed no charms for her darkened spirit. For the moment, earth was black-hued to her gaz

driven cattle, Be a

ry quietly; Mr. Martin was absent in a distant State, whither, as traveling agent for a mercantile house, he was often called. After tea, when little Johnny had been put to sleep in his crib, Mrs. Martin directed Annie to show the nurse her own room. Taking a candle, the child complied, and her mother ordered one of the servants to carry up the trunk containing Beulah's clothes. Up, up two weary, winding flig

w robbers never get up to the garret," said Annie, glancing around the apartment, and shivering with an undefined dread, r

s is only one garret room

ummer and rats in wi

" said Beulah, as the porter de

ng in a blaze to keep yourself warm. Here, hold the light at the top of the st

o much time to myself these long, long nights." Unpacking her trunk, she hung her dresses on the hooks, placed the books Mrs. Mason and Eugene had given her on the table, and, setting the candle beside them, smiled in anticipation of the many treats in store fo

ber that I am your child." Such was her final request, and she soon slept soundly, regardless o