Mary Minds Her Business

no minor domestic troubles to distract her; and when you have two maiden ladies workin

winter at quite a fabulous salary. They also took her to Boston and bought her some of the prettiest dresses imaginable; and the longer they knew her, the more they liked her;

ters were pushing him too hard. "What's all th

asked him, and drawing a full breath s

r thinking that the last of the Spencers had suddenly

s upon their brother's shoulders, as though they were two nurses soothing a patient and sa

Cordelia, her mouth e

nd the mother of yo

uttered Josiah, breakin

'm too

d children until he was sixty, and Ezra Babcock, father-in-law of the third

Cordelia earnestly. "Patty and I ar

mean to your peace of m

ould mean to S

emselves to be courted, but they must have had their private ideas of how such affairs should be conducted, fo

ey whispered to him: "Think what it will mean to Spencer & Son-" And whenever Martha showed the least misgivings they whispered to her: "That's only his way, my dear; you mustn't mind that." And once Cordelia added (while Patty nodded her head): "Of course, the

e glad they ha

you would have noticed that after the benediction they seemed to be praying very earnestly indeed-even as Sarah prayed in the temple so many y

ha thought to herself at the breakfast table,

he di

e them into the garden

nto the garden, somehow sh

k into the house," she

ndow so quietly and yet with such a look of mingled fear and pride an

ied. "Do you-do you-

than I can tell it, the three of them had their arms around each other, an