She brought a little basket filled with rags, worn-out embroideries, collars, cuffs, and edges of handkerchiefs, from which she cut the needle-work, to sew again on new muslin.

She looked at embroidery with an eye merely to its capacity for being transferred.

Alice proved a treasure to her, by giving her heaps of fine work.

She and Aunt Merce were pleased with each other, and when we were ready to come away, Alice begged her to visit her every year.

I made no farewell visits--my ill health was sufficient excuse; but my schoolmates came to bid me good-bye, and brought presents of needlebooks, and pincushions, which I returned by giving away yards of ribbon, silver fruit-knives, and Mrs.Hemans's poems, which poetess had lately given my imagination an apostrophizing direction.