s of
Faith, Hope, and Charity, they waited for something to "turn up."

Miss Wimple invested a daily three-cent piece in a New York paper,
and diligently conned the "Wants" before the Marriages and Deaths,
--extraordinary woman! An "opening" had but to show itself, and
Miss Wimple was ready to fling her character into the breach for the
benefit of her Magdalen. Strong-minded woman!

At last it came. A gentleman who had recently lost his wife wanted a
house-keeper and governess for his two little girls,--the offices to
be united in the person of "a lady by birth, education, and
associations"; to such a liberal salary would be given; and in case
she should be in straitened circumstances, a reasonable advance
would be made, "to enable the lady to assume at once the position of
a respected member of his family." The very place!

Now what did that dashing Miss Wimple-Quixote--of such is the Kingdom
of Heaven!--but sit down and pour her enormous little heart out in a
letter to a person she had never seen or heard of,--telling him
everything but names and localities, and appealing, with an
inspiration, to his divine spark. There is no doubt that, "for that
occasion only," Providence sent an advertiser to the "Tribune" to
justify the large faith of Pity in skimped delaine; for the word of
Hope and Love that Miss Wimple let fall, unstudied, from the heart,
fell upon a genial mind, and lo!--

"It raised a sister from the dust,
It saved a soul from death!"

The gentleman--the nobleman!--thanked his unknown correspondent,
whose hand he would esteem it an honor to touch, for the opportunity
she had afforded him to do good in a graceful way. Mrs. Morris
(Miss Wimple had written: "Let us know this poor lady as 'Mrs. Morris,'
a childless widow") should be most welcome to his house; she need
never be aware that the sad passages of her history had come to his
knowledge, and by all over whom he exercised authority or influence
her _sorrows_ should be reverenced. He took the liberty to inclose a
check, which Mrs. Morris would have the goodness to regard as a small
advance on her salary; she would make whatever preparation she might
deem necessary, at her perfect leisure; he would be happy to see her
as soon as it should be quite agreeable to her to come. Once more,
with all his heart, he thanked the admirable lady who had in so
remarkable a manner distinguished him by her noble impulse of
confidence. It would be his dearest d