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"Do you think so?" he asked, as he walked beside her, suiting his step to hers

"Yes, for if it were right," she sighed, her browspersons as the Barnetts would not have to live as they do and bring helpless children into the world"

"Things do seem rather uneven," Mostyn adht to have a law that would keep such couples froument aith a fine sniff of denial, and her eyes shot forth fresh gleams of conviction "How absurd to talk about a hu God's infinite will God intends for persons to love each other Love is the one divine thing that we can be absolutely sure of Annie and Tobe can't help the the them They love each other with a love that is celestial, a love that is of the spirit rather than of their poor ill-fed, ill-clothed bodies"

Mostyn's wonder over the girl's depth and facility of expression clutched him so fir reply

"Oh yes, their love is absolutely genuine," Dolly ran on, loyally "Tobe could have hter of a well-to-do farmer over the mountain whom he had visited several ti, I have heard, to give theht have been a irl working in the Ridgeville cotton factory at two or three dollars a week, which she was giving to her people

She had only two dresses, the tattered bag of a thing she worked in and another which she kept for Sundays Tobecotton to the factory, and so in her poor wretched face attracted him, or maybe it was her sweet voice, for it is as h at the ti in a paper about the lint of a factory causing consumption, and it worried hi about it She was on his irl, but he acted so oddly that she becao with another youngto the factory and--well, the upshot of it was that he married Annie"