YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



again! I am an honest girl, if I am working 

 for a living, and my fair face, and much 

 more my good name, are worth more than 

 gold to me; and some day, if I am patient 

 and faithful, I will have honest jewels of 

 my own, and can wear them openly and 

 proudly. ' 



But no. She confessed that she kept 

 nursing that little black thought. She said, 

 Thinking is no harm;' but, day by day, 

 that thought was growing stronger 

 stronger than her weak will - - while she kept 

 hobnobbing with it; and finally there came 

 an hour when the wicked thought put its 

 strong, black claws right on her fast-beating 

 heart, and made her hands do its bidding, 

 while she shook and shivered. 



Mistress Wakeman was going out riding 

 with the two little ones, and Inez was going 

 with her to tend them. Skippum was to 

 stay behind, for I had come over to play 

 with him that afternoon. 



So Inez bustled nervously around, and 

 said, ' Dear Mrs. Wakeman, let me go and 

 help you and the little boy into the carriage, 

 and then I will get on my hat and cloak, 

 and bring out the baby.' 

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