I[ ?] often find that meanness and extravagance go hand in hand." "Yes, that is true, still Mrs.Gough, I think people often act like Mrs.
Roberts more from want of thought than want of heart.

It was an old charge brought against the Israelite, 'My people doth not consider.'" * * * * * "What is the matter, my dear ?" said Belle a few mornings after this conversation as she approached the bedside of Mary Gough, "I thought you were getting along so nicely, and that with proper care you would be on your feet in a few days, but this morning you look so feeble, and seem so nervous and depressed.

Do tell me what has happened and what has become of your beautiful hair; oh you had such a wealth of tresses, I really loved to toy with them.

Was your head so painful that the doctor ordered them to be cut ?" "Oh, no," she said burying her face in the pillow and breaking into a paroxysm of tears.

"Oh, Miss Belle, how can I tell you," she replied recovering from her sudden outburst of sorrow.
"Why, what is it darling?
I am at a loss to know what has become of your beautiful hair." With gentle womanly tact Belle saw that the loss of her hair was a subject replete with bitter anguish, and turning to the children she took them in her lap and interested and amused them by telling beautiful fairy stories.