YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



can't stand such expensive mischief - - it 

 costs more money than a little to have such 

 goings on as this. If Imogene doesn't seem 

 to have any notion of taking her back, you 

 had better let the grocer have her," said the 

 gentleman. ' You know you were telling me 

 that the doctor had advised him to have a 

 little puppy to sleep with his little girl, who 

 isn't very strong, and he seems very anxious 

 to have this one." 



"Well," said mother, with her usual 

 woman's tact again, " I told the grocer that 

 the matter could not be decided till the end 

 of this week, and you can see then how you 

 feel about giving her up." 



I stopped sobbing, and listened with 

 quaking heart. Oh, how I longed to be 

 good enough to merit approval; how I 

 wished I knew how to be; but I was only a 

 poor little puppy, and did not know what 

 the words "cost," and "money," meant, - 

 no more than the little people do, when they 

 break and mar what has cost time and 

 effort, but I knew they were talking 

 about me in low and serious tones. 



I shivered at thought of being thrust away 

 again from those soft, loving arms, even 



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