6/7 "But I must try not to be too proud. I will ask God to help me to do what is really right in the matter." "That's it, honey, and maybe you won't have to do it after all. I wonder, now, dear, if Mr.Noel is well off." "Really, Hannah, I think you have got Mr.Noel on the brain! Yes, I have heard Miss Egerton say that he is a rich man. He was the adopted son of a very wealthy person, who left him all his property." "Adopted, was he ?" said Hannah. "On my word, these tremblings are terrible! Miss Primrose, dear, I have come in to say that I may be going a little journey in the morning. |