That," continued Mrs.Garie, with a smile, "is another illustration of the truthfulness of the old adage, 'Talk of--well, I won't say who,--'and he is sure to appear.'" And, thus speaking, she turned from the window, and was soon deeply occupied in the important work of preparing for the expected little stranger.

Mrs.Garie was mistaken in her supposition that Mrs.Stevens was unaware that Clarence and little Em attended the same school to which her own little girl had been sent; for the evening before the conversation we have just narrated, she had been discussing the matter with her husband.
"Here," said she to him, "is Miss Jordan's bill for the last quarter.

I shall never pay her another; I am going to remove Lizzy from that school." "Remove her! what for?
I thought I heard you say, Jule, that the child got on excellently well there,--that she improved very fast ?" "So she does, as far as learning is concerned; but she is sitting right next to one of those Garie children, and that is an arrangement I don't at all fancy.

I don't relish the idea of my child attending the same school that niggers do; so I've come to the determination to take her away." "I should do no such thing," coolly remarked Mr.Stevens.

"I should compel the teacher to dismiss the Garies, or I should break up her school.