I could not help it.

I wanted a finer life.
"Only one day something made me happy.

A nurse came to the store with a little girl belonging to one of our clerks.

While the maid went into the office to give a message to its father, the little child stood looking at me.

Presently she came close to me and peeped up into my face.
"'Nice curls, pretty curls,' she said; 'I like curls.' "She felt my hair all over, with her little hands.