Her heart was very heavy, for she felt she had been disgraced for life, and could never be respected any more.

Here was a trial so terrible that it caused the death of little Dandy to seem almost a trifle by comparison.
It was strange, Susy thought, how people could live through such severe troubles as had fallen to her lot to-day.

She was a little girl of quick and sensitive feelings, and a sharp word always wounded her more than a blow.

How that angry woman had talked about her mother! Susy decided, upon the whole, that this was the sting--this was the "pin in the lash," which had hurt her more than the lash.

How _dared_ Mrs.
Lovejoy say a word about her own mother, who was certainly the best woman that ever lived, always excepting the good people in the Bible! By the time she entered the house, her indignation had risen like a blaze, and burned away all her tears.