Brenda's Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls

ite the Common. On second thought she decided to economize, since she had already had an expensive afternoon. After depositing her subway ticket she had to wait a few minutes for he

with a foreign accent, fumbling in

his purse, and she set her wits at work to trace the loss. She remembered the little girl with the basket, and recalled that the moment before the child had begged her pardon she had felt something jerk her belt. Had she only put the two things together earlier she might have recovered the purse; for of course the child had taken it. Yet to prove this would h

enough to speak about Maggie and the broken vase. The story did not lose by her telling, especially as the box with the broken pieces arrived when she was in the midst of her tale. The family was seated in the li

vase I feel that I've gaine

er; "I always hoped you'd feel

rley; she may prove of more worth than twenty dollars if she beco

eeps her

a, I am sure t

ister, "Arthur lost his temper to-day when he foun

ides, he can't expect me always to

ead to take you to his studio to see a picture, and he was grea

simply going for a walk to Brookline, but they shut off the telephone, o

ell him so this evening. What

lph," replied Brenda; "we're to r

e his turn

ady at the sound of three sharp peals of the door

he girl for your school; she is

h, "those are certainly fine qualifi

, as she laughingly advanced to the centre of the room, greeting th

k, I hope," exclaimed

whole week away from my work! Ah! Uncle Robert, you're a good business man, to suggest such a thing!

sked Agnes, taking up the bit of sewing

later we shall invite you one by one, o

d furniture, and in a certain way the D

ed, and yet it is not changed. But I did not

ear before her death. But in its style of architecture and its furnishings it seemed so co

who haven't homes of their own will feel perfectly happy. Of course we have had to make some changes in the house it

ia? You had a dozen or two waiting admitt

home, and there are still some vacancie

isconcerted, and when Agnes asked her to tell them something about the gi

l cheeks, and a kind of peach bloom showing through the brown, and her hair closely plaited and wound round and round, and the largest brown eyes. Miss South bec

er! I've heard of

h, you are

es made when they can work in it. But after Miss South had visited Concetta a few times she thought her capable of something better, and so she is to have

a word from her accomplished more than all our arguments. Concetta is now freed from the dirty, crowded tenement, and I feel that we may be able to make something of her. Then there is Edith's nominee, Gretchen Rosenbaum, whose grandfather is the Blairs

they see it, especially if it isn't

two peas in a pod. Angelina told me about them, and their teacher confirmed my opinion that it wou

y do you have to pay t

ad had to promise the aunt two dollars a week, which the latter had estimated as her share of their earnings for the next two ye

ontributed to

meet some friends. Nellie and a half-dozen others had become separated from the guide who was to take them to their lodging-place in East Boston. They were near the dock, and Nora became very much interested in Nellie. She took

interesting. You

d there are one or two vacancies. I wish, Brenda, that you could send us a pupil. I'm afrai

nd the prospect of her going to the Mansion. "I just jumped at the idea when it came to me," concluded Brenda, "for I have had so many things on my mind this summer

this afternoon," said her mother, "in spite of the pretty high p

s Maggie her home, although she feels it her duty to keep her. She says that Maggie has a way of upsetting things that is very trying, and s

work, and Julia's enthusiasm half reconciled Mr. and Mr

e girls possibly can," Mr. Barlow had protested, when Julia had

u would not have complained, for you would have thought this a thing for my especial profit and pleasure. Now when I shall be so n

not overwork the poor little girls either. I feel sorry for them now, with you and Pamela and

frivolity. A little discouragement would

r from time to time, was convinced that Julia's new interests had c

South had started to carry out. As his niece's tastes so evidently ran in philanthro

uraged to a higher ambition. For many of them evidently thought first of the money they could immediately earn, and there was no one to suggest that if they prepared themselves for something better they would later have more money as well as greater honor. So she tried to find girls willing to spend two years at the Mansion, while she watched them and advised them and guided them into what she believed would be the best avenue

y art or music?" some on

why

istricts!-it doesn't seem right

to follow its natural bent? It's a case o

ts may snatch the little wages they can earn in the factories. The ten or twelve girls we may have here at the Mansion are very few

n class ideas above their sphere, on the whole she was commended for undertaking a good work.

college," and they wondered that Mrs. Barl

e just lying in wait for the earnings of their half-grown daughters. To fill your school you will either have to kill off a few fathers and mothers, or else consider only o

was said of Mrs. Harris, 'I don't believe there's no sich a person;' and i

ve to bribe your girls, and when I meet them my firs

the house for its new use had been the eagerness t

ll show that I have a practical interest in housekeeping, even t

t won't be wholly idle,"

ipts, or better than that, some new articles of food, tha

n mind whenever we look at the