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"Bless ood soul It seeh she may not choose to say so, wishes to see the child, and if she approve of her, breed her up in the accomplishments needed for such an elevation"

"If you hold that opinion, dear sir, it is well"

"If I thought she meant other than kindness toward the dear ether than risk the little one in her hands I had rather-if it comes to that--live on a crust a day than part with ood, Betty! It is hard for you all three to be cooped up together here, with nothat I ought not to reject What say you, Betty?"

"If I were to send her out into the world, I had rather bind her apprentice to the Misses Rigby to learnas I live there is no need foras you retain your situation, sir; but you perceive how , Betty, which she sings whenever the coin does not coh to content her She does not mean what she says; I know Urania of old No; I rite back to her, thanking her for her good offices, but telling herto be launched into the world as yet Though if it were Harriet, she "

"Harriet would be transported at the idea; but it is not she whom the Lady wants And indeed I had rather trust little Aurelia to take care of herself than poor Harriet"

"We shall see! We shall see! Meantime, do not broach the subject to your sisters"

Betty assented, and departed with a heavy heart, feeling that, whatever her father ht believe, the choice would be between the sacrifice of Aurelia or of her father's agency, which would involve the loss of ho Eugene according to his birth She did not even knohat her father had written, and could only go about her daily occupations like one under a weight, listening to her sisters' prattle about their little plans with a strange sense that everything was co the co Aurelia