ath.
Or perhaps the cousin took good care to bequeath his money where there
was more money for it to stick to. And Madam Liberality pinched out
her little presents as heretofore, and kept herself warm with a hot
bottle when she could not afford a fire, and was too thankful to have
Darling with her when she was ill to want anything else. And perhaps
Darling and she prepared Tom for school, and (like many another
widow's son) he did them credit. And perhaps they were quite happy
with a few common pot-plants in the sunny window, and kept their
mother's memory green by flowers about her grave, and so passed by a
life of small cares and small pleasures to where
"Divided households re-unite."
Of one thing we may be quite certain. Rich or poor, she was always
MADAM LIBERALITY.
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