WITH A WINE-GLASS. 45

Mary curtsied to the lady and was about
leaving the room, when Mrs. Layton said, —

‘Nurse, l intend to take that girl into my
service. Stay; I have something to say to
her.”

“Not now, ma’am; and she’s not fit for
your service. And now let me tell you about
her first, said Peggy,” with an air of authority.

‘Then she must come to me to-morrow.”

“Very well, ma’am; go now.”

Mary was too bewildered almost to take
refuge in a curtsey, and felt wonderfully re-
lieved when she found herself on the landing,
where she encountered the servant, astonish-
| ingly close to the door; the girl stood still,
and looked Mary over, from her coarse,
serviceable shoes, up to her neat straw bonnet,
which was trimmed with ereen ribbon.

“And so you are to come and have my
- place, she said, in a contemptuous tone ;—

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