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"Clergy and philanthropy is their business They get soit I don't believe St Jude's pays Mrs Stanhope a red cent There now, and if she isn't paid, she's right not to work Areat interest in church work"

"I dare say she did Marriage makes a deal of difference in a wo-tie she had other opportunities"

"I think you ht, but it wouldn't be worth while Be true to your friend as long as you can In Yorkshire we stand by our friends, right or wrong, and we aren't too particular as to their being right My father enjoyed justifying a man that everyone else was down on; and I've stood by ood word for I was never sorry for doing it, either I'll be going into a strange country soon, and I should not wonder if soone there first will be ready to stand by lad of there"

The dinner bell broke up this conversation, and Ethel during it told Mada at the Court and at Nicholas Rawdon's, where John Thoehter at four o'clock, Madam vowed "she had spent one of the happiest days of her life"

"Ruth tells e, "that Dora Stanhope called for Ethel soon after she left ho Ruth seems troubled at the continuance of this friendship Have you spoken to your grandmother, Ethel, about Dora?"

"She has told me all there is to tell, I dare say," answered Madam

"Well, mother, what do you think?"

"I see no harm in it yet awhile It is not fair, Edward, to condemn upon likelihoods We are no saints, sinful men and women, all of us, and as ood Christians can be Ethel can do as she feels about it; she's got a oodness she'll not let Ruth Bayard bit and bridle it"

Going hoe evidently pondered this question, for he said after a lengthy silence, "Grandmother's ethics do not always fit the social ethics of this day, Ethel She criticises people with her heart, not her intellect Youcalled Respectability to be reckoned with remember that"