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Title: Trading

Author: Susan Warner

Release Date: October 1, 2009 [EBook #30149]

Language: English

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[Transcriber's note: This is the fourth of a series of four novels by
Susan Warner, all of which are in the Project Gutenberg collection:

1. What She Could
2. Opportunities
3. The House in Town
4. Trading]

TRADING:

FINISHING THE

STORY OF "THE HOUSE IN TOWN," &c.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"WIDE WIDE WORLD," "THE OLD HELMET,"

"WALKS FROM EDEN," &c., &c.

"For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country,
who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods."

NEW YORK:

ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS,

530 BROADWAY.

1873.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

ROBERT CARTER AND BROTHERS

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

TRADING.

CHAPTER I.

Christmas day was grey with clouds; on the roofs of the city and in the
streets the sun never shone all day. People called it cold. Sarah
Staples found it so on her crossing. Inside Mrs. Lloyd's front-door,
however, it seemed to Matilda to be nothing but sunshine. She had not
leisure to look at the grey sky, and to be sure the temperature was
that of summer. Matilda had a great deal to do. Her various parcels
were to be neatly tied up in white paper, with the names of the persons
they were for nicely written thereon, and then committed to Mrs.
Bartholomew for arranging on the Christmas tree. Then the presents for
Anne and Letitia were to be directed and sent; Maria's basket packed
and put in charge of the express-man; and several little letters
written, one to Mr. Richmond. Till all these things were done, Matilda
had no time to think of the weather; then she found that the snow was
beginning to fall and coming thick.

"Yes," said Norton, to whom she announced her discovery; "and it's
stingi