The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. I03 "Very impolite in me to run off so, was n't t I Cowardly, too, I think. Well, Mary?" "Well, Auntie?" "Have you not repented your proposition yet?" "You would excel as an inquisitor, Mrs. Forceythe!" "Then it shall be as you say; as long as you want us you shall have us,- Faith and me." I turned to thank her, but could not when I saw her face. It was very pale; there was something inexpressibly sad about her mouth, and her eyelids drooped heavily, like one weary from a great struggle. Feeling for the moment guilty and ashamed before her, as if I had done her wrong, "It is going to be very hard for you," I said. "Never mind about that," she answered, quickly. "We will not talk about that. I knew, though I did not zwish to know, that it was best for Faith. Your hands about my neck have settled it. Where the work is, there the laborer must be. It is quite plain now. I have been talking it over with them all the afternoon; it seems to be what they want." " Wi, h them "? I started at the words; who

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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