A Modern Cinderella

d drawers in which to pack away things. Bridget had scoured and scrubbed and polished windows largely to pass

glad to se

Bridget and her tone

ged looking, but them babies do beat all! They're quite ginteel one may say, an how they d

nds worse indoors. There was a big out of doors and grass, and people passing and 1

la! Ma

waste her time in

and take them out walking

call? Oh, how her heart yearned to see them all again

block further down Arch street. The other she had known at the seaside. She smiled with a sudden pleasant surprise. The girl simply stared. Maril

ever, but glad to get back to her room. She would not come down

mall waiter up stairs. The tea was in the pot; Aunt Hetty had t

nd of the house. You see that they don't come up stairs. It's nice to be in your own place, though the folks where I staid were very good and pleasant, I s'pose they thought I might remember them in my will," and she gave a shrill sor

Jack is better than he used to be, he had the nicest little playmate and was out of the house most 173 of the time. But I mu

in a cup with a handle-it is so much nicer t

the rest of us you'll wish you were in the grave. My! You look all tired out. Now, here's a nice bit of chicken tha

ave things as nice as in the dining room, and to have things shoveled out of the kettle on your plate or cold on a dish! Sometimes puddings were good, and the creams and frozen

hings to suit I'd take French leave, though I guess I'd call it Irish leave. And people, wo

icken was so tasty, and the fresh home-made bread delightful. And th

milk. I'll see first if Mrs. Borden wa

most of them while

for sleep, now that they were well. Jack was perched on his father's

friend, Maggie Brady, just out of a place and a nice tidy girl; a good cook, too. So they both suited. Maggie's mother and mine lived in the same town.

ful, hot, and the remainder was set out on the window sill. Then she settled he

e before. And no doubt I'll fall asleep-I always snore a little at first, and when you hear that you may light

while before the gentle snoring began,

ened. It was a comfort to get rid of Jack. Th

I simply can't let Marilla go. I didn't adopt her nor consider her in any sense my own. A child like that isn't worth more than her board and clothes. What good would she be to us if we had to get her off at nine in the morning, and

later on she could go to evening school. There's so much shopping and planning, and we must be

hing ready for a speedy marriage. It would be in church with a very s

ing adieu and coming down the steps. Yes, that was Ada Brant who had been at Bayside in the sum

had all been on an equality. And somehow the Bordens had not really put her down. Then that lovely Miss Armi

e years more of this, and wouldn't people remember she had been Mrs. Borden's nursemaid?

gown, and then fed. Afterward laid in their crib. They didn't go to sleep at once but kicked and laughed and chatted in a regular frolic. Phlegmatic babies c

Mrs. Borden. "John do you know a firm, Dav

or him. He's been up in the Adirondacks all summer and

y'll have to move here. She is quite taken with Newton. I told them 179 about that Jamreth house down the street and they decided to look at it. Of course I didn't get much acquainted with her, but she seems a very nice body. And that

rk, for Arch street led direct. Suppose Ada was there sitting on the stoop or at the

Prince failed to comfort. The whole world seemed change

Jack went to school a week an

gh to begin school. I wish one of the twins wa

ek the charm began to fail. His head ached and he

flushed up so that in the afternoon his teacher sent him home. "And I don't

ming cooler weather. Oh, you'll get us

s bitter. His father sent him to bed, but he tossed and tumbled and cried out for a drink ever so many times, and in the m

is in the school, and I suppose the twins

ousehold sorely. Then the babies showed symptoms and seemed vexed that such a t

," said Mrs. Borden, late one afternoon. "

Jack was still a reclus

st unconsciously her feet turned thitherward. Miss Armitage sat by the win

transport of happy crying,

ar!" leadi

he measles round at our house

n home four days and had the most splendid time. But I want to hear about you-have 182 y

so well and there was no bath only a cold water faucet and a gas stove, and I missed Bridget so much. We staid out of doors most of the time. I didn't go in bathing-I was a little

apturously. Miss Armitage held up t

haven't g

ome, and the old lady, Aunt Hetty, wants one to r

are not help

think, like the rest of us, she's so glad to be back. One day she gave me a dollar and said

ot nece

town that I'd like. Only Jack takes every thing, and he keeps asking if I haven't a penny

oks do you read

o I don't get the real sense of the story. They seem to have a good deal of trouble. I'd rather read about little gi

We'll have some nice reading again.

, I wrote a letter to Dr. Richards. He asked me to, and he sent such a nice answer. I did want to write again, but I hadn'

come here and let you know. And sometimes when you are out with the babi

r shall be like the girls who have pretty homes and parents to

r," in a

me one really loves you even if you are a bound-o

love the hand that set her in pleasanter places and not come to think wholly of self? For she, woman past thirty,

olet was wild to run away, as Jack had been, and so was quite a care. Then the

he friend. "She seems to know just what to do, and

he's bound to me until she's eigh

gular boy, full of pranks; they were sometimes rather rough. He did stand in awe of his father, but he oc

Marilla had been building houses for the twins to knock down. They glanced at Miss Armitage with wondering eyes, but they said "down, down" when Marilla took to a chair. Then they tumbled over her and bu

there was any way to get her fr

two little ones. Many a girl would jump at the place. It wouldn't do for us to be changing them about, you see. We do sometim

could be

ot be filled with dreams of wonderful fortunes. Real work is and must be the lot of those who are homeless and dependent. Now, if you wanted to adopt some child I have two

ee. Why should she care so much for Marilla? The faint

Then a dressmaker was to come, and friends were dropping in. Unless they shut the nu

rtained? It sounds as if they were getting murde

had the croup and the

keep looking at books and pictures in store windows. You better go straight over to th

They uttered shrieks of delight as they went along. The Brant's were moving in the Jamreth house; she would remember hereafter to turn off at State street and not pass it. Somehow she felt very tired. At times there was such a fl