I find that I cannot do that in Thorbury, and I am going to try to get one in the city.

I am now writing an advertisement which I shall put into several of the papers, and day after to-morrow I shall go down to see the people who answer." "Oh, that will be fun," cried Dora; "I wish I could go with you." "And why not ?" "Why not, indeed ?" replied the young lady, and the matter was immediately arranged.
"And while we are talking about servants," said Dora, whose ebullient mind now found a chance to bring in the subject which was most prominent within it, "I should think that the new people at Cobhurst would find it troublesome to get the right sort of service." "Perhaps so," replied Mrs.Tolbridge, "although I have a fancy they are going to have a very independent household, at least for a time.

It is a great pity that the young girl was taken sick just as she entered into her new home." "Sick!" exclaimed Dora; "I never heard of that." "Oh, it wasn't anything serious," said the other, her thoughts turning to the advertisement, which she wished to get into the post-office before dinner, "and I have no doubt she is quite well now, but still it was a pity." "Indeed it was!" exclaimed Dora, in tones of the most earnest sympathy and commiseration.

"It was the greatest kind of a pity, and I think I really ought to call on her very soon." And in this mood she went home to dinner..