ave waited a little longer for look's sake. Can you see what she's
got on from here?" and the lady made a rush for the window to
ascertain if possible that important fact.

Meantime the carriage steps were let down and Mrs. Campbell alighted.
As Mrs. Knight's guests had surmised, she was far more ready to visit
Mary now than heretofore. Ella, too, had been duly informed by her
waiting-maid that she needn't mind denying that she had a sister to
the Boston girls who were spending a summer in Chicopee.

"To be sure," said Sarah, "she'll never be a fine lady like you and
live in the city; but then Mrs. Mason is a very respectable woman, and
will no doubt put her to a trade, which is better than being a town
pauper; so you mustn't feel above her any more, for it's wicked, and
Mrs. Campbell wouldn't like it, for you know she and I are trying to
bring you up in the fear of the Lord."

Accordingly Ella was prepared to greet her sister more cordially than
she had done before in a long time, and Mary that day took her first
lesson in learning that too often friends come and go with prosperity.
But she did not think of it then. She only knew that her sister's arm
was around her neck, and her sister's kiss upon her cheek. With a cry
of joy, she exclaimed, "Oh, Ella, I knew you'd be glad to find me so
happy."

But Ella wasn't particularly glad. She was too thoroughly heartless to
care for any one except herself, and her reception of her sister was
more the result of Sarah's lesson, and of a wish expressed by Mrs.
Campbell, that she would "try and behave as well as she could towards
Mary." Mrs. Campbell, too, kissed the little girl, and expressed her
pleasure at finding her so pleasantly situated; and then dropping
languidly upon the sofa, asked for Mrs. Mason, who soon appeared, and
received her visitor with her accustomed politeness.

"And so you, too, have cared for the orphan," said Mrs. Campbell.
"Well, you will find it a task to rear her as she should be reared,
but a consciousness of doing right makes every thing seem easy. My
dear, (speaking to Ella,) run out and play awhile with your sister, I
wish to see Mrs. Mason alone."

"You may go into the garden," said Mrs. Mason to Mary, who arose to
obey; but Ella hung back, saying she 'didn't want to go,--the garden
was all nasty, and she should dirty her clothes."

"But, my child," said Mrs. Campbell, "I wish to have you go, and you
love to obey me, do you not?"

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