48 BLANCH AND ROSALINDA.

He married Beauty, and passed a long and happy life with her,
because they still kept in the same course of goodness that they
had always been used to,

 

BLANCH AND ROSALINDA.

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Iw a pleasant village, some miles from the metropolis, there
lived a very good sort of woman, who was much beloved by all
her neighbours, because she was always ready to assist every
one who was in need. She had received in her youth a better
education than the inhabitants of the little village in which she
dwelt, and for this reason the poor people looked up to her
with a degree of respect. She was the widow of a very good
man, who, when he died, left her with two children. They
were very pretty girls. The eldest, on account of the fairness
of her complexion, was named Blanch, and the other Rosalinda,
because her cheeks were like roses, and her lips like coral.
One day, while Goody Hearty sat spinning at the door, she
saw a poor old woman going by, leaning on a stick, who had