16/19 I like his brother the best." "He is honest, and good, and _independent_," said Elizabeth; "and those are the very people that ought to be helped." "And those are the very people that it is difficult to help," said her father. "How do you suppose he would take it, if I were to offer him a fifty dollar note to-morrow ?" "I don't suppose he would take it at all," said Elizabeth. But there are other ways." "You may give him all your business, when he gets into his profession," said Mr.Haye. "I don't know what else you can do. Or you can use your influence with Mr.Satterthwaite to get his father to employ him." "You and he may both be very glad to do it yet," said Elizabeth. |