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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Author: Various Release Date: October 19, 2008 [EBook #26963] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ATLANTIC MONTHLY, NOVEMBER 1866 *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections). THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. _A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics._ VOL. XVIII.--NOVEMBER, 1866.--NO. CIX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. RHODA. Uncle Bradburn took down a volume of the new Cyclopaedia, and placed it on the stand beside him. He did not, however, open it immediately, but sat absorbed in thought. At length he spoke:--"Don't you think a young girl in the kitchen, to help Dorothy, would save a good many steps?" "I don't know," replied Aunt Janet, slowly. "Dorothy has a great deal to do already. Hepsy is as good and considerate as possible, but Dorothy won't let her do anything hardly. Hepsy says herself that within doors she has only dusted furniture and mended stockings ever since she came." "Can't you find sewing for Hepsy?" "She ought not to do much of that, you know." "Very true; but then this girl,--she will have to go to the poor-house if we don't take her. She has been living with Mrs. Kittredge at the Hollow; but Mrs. Kittredge has made up her mind not to keep her any longer. The fact is, nobody will keep her unless we do; and she is terribly set against going back to the poor-house." "Who is she?" asked Aunt Janet, a little hurriedly. She guessed already. "Her name is Rhoda Breck. You have heard of her." "Heard of her! I should think so!" "If I were you, Oliver," said gran
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