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mere; “it is not on my own account,
sit-on” account of the child, that I
ivé spoken. I supposed you igno-
rant of the fact of her having such a
_ dreadful cough: I knew, my dear
~ Mrs. Wingate, that you would agree
with me in the sentiment, that the
health and happiness even of our
domestics should be a portion of our

care.”

Mrs. Wingate’s first impulse was
to correct this mistake ; but—feeling,
notwithstanding Mrs. Elmore’s polite
way of managing her reproof, that it
was really intended for a reproof—to
confess that Laura was not a domes-
tic, that she was her husband’s child,
intrusted by a most solemn cove-
nant to her motherly care, was a
thing which she hesitated to do: she
sat a moment silent and embarrass-