The humble condition in which he found her, quickened that consciousness into a sting.
"I am sorry, madam," he said, after he had become seated, and made a few inquiries, "that I did not get the place for your son.

In fact, I am to blame in the matter.

But I have been thinking since, that he would suit me exactly, and if you have no objections, I will take him, and pay him a salary of two hundred dollars for the first year." Mrs.Mayberry tried to reply, but her feelings were too much excited by this sudden and unlooked-for proposal, to allow her to speak for some moments.

Even then, her assent was made with tears glistening on her cheeks.
Arrangements were quickly made for the transfer of Hiram from the store where he had been engaged, to the counting-room of Mr.Easy.
The salary he received was just enough to enable Mrs.Mayberry, with what she herself earned, to keep her little ones together, until Hiram, who proved a valuable assistant in Mr.Easy's business, could command a larger salary, and render her more important aid.
HUMAN LIFE.
BY T.S.ARTHUR.
BENJAMIN PARKER was not as thrifty as some of his neighbors.

He could not "get along in the world." "Few men are more industrious than I am," he would sometimes say to his wife.