SUSAN GRAY. 58

a long life to use every wicked means, and every
lying and deceitful art, to get money. For, as
the Bible says, it is an easy thing for the Lord

of a sudden to make a poor man rich. (Ecclus.
' xi, 21.) I know not for what reason the
Captain offered me the half-guinea; but I
knew it could be for no good reason, for I
had done him no service, and stood not in
need of charity.”

‘** Not stand in need of charity!” said my
mistress; ‘ that may be as you think: to be
sure, you have bread to eat, but you certainly
want for many necessaries. Why, as I said be-
fore, you have not a decent gown to your back z
you have not one that has not been patched in
half-a-dozen places; aud since you came to
me, you have not had a new hat.”

“If Iam poor,” I said, ‘1 cannot help it.”

‘Not help it!” said my mistress: “did you
not refuse money to-day? But pride and po-
verty often go together.”

** Pride!” I repeated, and I fear I said it
rather warmly; ‘I am not proud: though I
trust that I am above receiving money which
can be given with no good intention.”

Charlotte took me up sharply: “ And how
do you know,” said she, ‘ that it was with no
good intention that the Captain offered you
money? I understand what you would be at,
Susan; but it is nothing but envy at seeing
people better dressed than yourself.”

She said much more to the same purpose,
and seemed so very hot, that J really was sur-
prised, till I perceived that she had on the very