But thee desires to find a worthy object of benevolence.

Let us see if we cannot find one, What have we here ?" And as the Quaker said this he paused before a building, from the door of which protruded a red flag, containing the words, "Auction this day." On a large card just beneath the flag was the announcement, "Positive sale of unredeemed pledges." "Let us turn in here," said the Quaker.

"No doubt we shall find enough to excite our sympathies." Mr.Edwards thought this a strange proposal; but he felt a little curious, and followed his companion without hesitation.
The sale had already begun, and there was a small company assembled.
Among them, the merchant noticed a young woman whose face was partially veiled.

She was sitting a little apart from the rest, and did not appear to take any interest in the bidding.

But he noticed that, after an article was knocked off, she was all attention until the next was put up, and then, the moment it was named, relapsed into a sort of listlessness or abstraction.
The articles sold embraced a great variety of things useful and ornamental.