I have prevailed on one of the dearest old ladies that ever lived to give me rooms with her.

She and her husband live all alone in this big country place, so I shall have to provide against loneliness by taking my company with me.

Will you let me have Joyce for a year ?" Jack and she stopped playing in sheer astonishment, while Cousin Kate went on to explain how many advantages she could give the little girl to whom she had taken such a strong fancy.
Looking through the lilac-bushes, Joyce could see her mother wipe her eyes and say, "It seems like pure providence, Kate, and I can't stand in the child's way.

She'll have to support herself soon, and ought to be prepared for it; but she's the oldest of the five, you know, and she has been like my right hand ever since her father died.

There'll not be a minute while she is gone, that I shall not miss her and wish her back.
She's the life and sunshine of the whole home." Then Joyce could see the little brown house turned all topsy-turvy in the whirl of preparation that followed, and the next thing, she was standing on the platform at the station, with her new steamer trunk beside her.