e a sixpenny calico," said she, "I
certainly am not now that I dress in purple and fine linen."

When Sally first went to Boston, George procured for her the best
possible medical advice, but her case was of so long standing that but
little hope was entertained of her entire recovery. Still every thing
was done for her that could be done, and after a time she became far
less boisterous than formerly, and sometimes appeared perfectly
rational for days. She still retained her taste for literature, and
nothing but George's firmness and decision prevented her from sending
off the manuscript of her grammar, which was now finished. It was in
vain that he told her she was not now obliged to write for a living,
as he had more than enough for her support.

She replied it was not _money_ she coveted, but _reputation_,--a
name,--to be pointed at as Mrs. Sarah Furbush, authoress of "Furbush's
Grammar," &c.,--_this_ was her aim!

"You may write all you choose for the entertainment of ourselves and
our friends," said George, "but I cannot allow you to send any thing
to a publisher,"

Sally saw he was in earnest, and at last yielded the point, telling
Mary in confidence that "she never saw any one in her life she feared
as she did Esquire Moreland when he set his foot down!"

And George did seem to have a wonderful influence over her, for a
single look from him would quiet her when in her wildest moods. In
spite of the desire she once expressed of finding her sister, Mrs.
Campbell's pride at first shrank from acknowledging a relationship
between herself and Sally Furbush, but the fact that George Moreland
brought her to his home, treating her in every respect as his equal,
and always introducing her to his fashionable friends as his aunt,
gradually reconciled her to the matter, and she herself became at last
very attentive to her, frequently urging her to spend a part of the
time with her. But Sal always refused, saying that "for the sake of
her niece she must be very particular in the choice of her
associates!"

True to her promise, on Mary's twenty-first birth-day, Mrs Campbell
made over to her one fourth of her property, and Mary, remembering her
intentions towards William Bender, immediately offered him one half of
it. But he declined accepting it, saying that his profession was
sufficient to support both himself and Jenny, for in a few weeks
Jenny, whose father had returned from California, was coming, and
already a neat