66 BE TRUE.

ther’s, when she told Mrs. Elmore that

she looked as reene — healthy as

she did ten years ago.”

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“Ha! ha!” laughed Jane Amelia,

“and how much good the lie did the
poor creature: but Laura, if she ever
dares to’ speak to Mrs. Elmore, will
say, You look as my dear mamma
did just before she died—I can make
her say that, and I am sure Mrs. EI-
more will never wish to set eyes on
her again.”

“Then I shall not say it,” thought
Laura, “for I don’t want to distress
any one; but,” and the little girl co-
vered her head, “they think that I
am asleep. I ought not to be listen-
ing to anything like this,” and witha
desperate effort she fixed her thoughts
upon other themes, and soon sunk
into a quiet slumber.