'There's my good girl. Then we'll go up-stairs and settle it

all.' Margaret was in a state of almost trembling eagerness,

while Mr. Bell discussed his plan with her aunt Shaw, who was

first startled, then doubtful and perplexed, and in the end,

yielding rather to the rough force of Mr. Bell's words than to

her own conviction; for to the last, whether it was right or

wrong, proper or improper, she could not settle to her own

satisfaction, till Margaret's safe return, the happy fulfilment

of the project, gave her decision enough to say, 'she was sure it

had been a very kind thought of Mr. Bell's, and just what she

herself had been wishing for Margaret, as giving her the very

change which she required, after all the anxious time she had

had.'




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