"I love her as if she were my own." "Yes," said the cooper, clearing his throat, and speaking a little huskily, "we love her so much that we almost forgot that she wasn't ours.

We have had her since she was a baby, and it won't be easy at first to give her up." "My good friends," said Mrs.Clifton, earnestly, "I acknowledge your claim.

I shall not think of asking you to make that sacrifice.

I shall always think of Ida as only a little less yours than mine." The cooper shook his head.
"But you live in Philadelphia," he said.

"We shall lose sight of her." "Not unless you refuse to come to Philadelphia, too." "I am a poor man.