d to help you," he added, kindly, "for you
look rather too anxious."

Mr Blyth represented to the publisher that it was important to his
young friend to know soon the fate of his work. An answer was
accordingly promised in a week: and Charles, once more full of hope,
took leave of Mr Blyth with many thanks.

The bookseller was as good as his word. When Charles called again, at
the end of a week, he received twenty guineas for the copyright of the
volume. He was quite satisfied, and it gave him much pleasure to
transmit the money to Isabella. Jane told him, in her answer, that she
had considered the money as disposed of before it arrived, as both she
and Isabella thought that the expenses of the latter's illness ought to
be defrayed out of their own little fund. But to her agreeable surprise
Mrs Everett had told her that her salary was increased to thirty-five
pounds a year. Such an increase as this was quite unexpected, and Jane
at first refused to receive it, as she had not attended her charge for
some weeks, while she was nursing Isabella. Mrs Everett would not
listen to her objection, and thus Jane was able to pay her very moderate
surgeon's account without breaking into Isabella's earnings.

Jane also laid before her brother a very important plan which her
friends, the Everetts and Monteaths, had been forming for her, when they
found that Isabella was really likely to be restored to health. It was
proposed that Isabella should be sent to a London school for two years,
to perfect her in some accomplishments, and that, on her return to
Exeter, she and Jane should take a house in a better situation than
their own, where they should open a day-school, on an excellent plan.
Mrs Everett promised them three pupils from her own family to begin
with, and the Miss Monteaths doubted not that their influence would
procure more. Jane liked the plan very much, because she and Isabella
would not be separated, and they could still afford a home to Alfred for
some years. "I need not," said Jane, "tell you the delightful
anticipations which I have for the future, if this plan can really be
carried into effect. We two have always dreaded a separation, and
considered it as unavoidable; for Isabella only looked forward to going
out as a private governess, as soon as she felt she could
conscientiously engage to teach, and I always regretted having no
definite object in view for myself. Now I have, and I must work harder
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