up like; and she with her face turned up to his, and a look like
heaven, if I ever hope to see heaven. The next minute they was gone,
and still I hadn't never moved. And now I've come to tell you, sir,"
cried Mrs. Brown, smoothing down her ruffled hair in great agitation;"
and to tell you something else too, as I would burst if I didn't. I am
glad he has got her! If I was to lose my place fifty times over, as
you've always been good pay and a kind gentleman too, still I say it,
I'm glad he has got her. She wasn't of your kind, sir, nor of mine
neither. And--and I've never been a professor," cried the woman, with
her apron at her eyes, "but I hope I know an angel when I see one, and
I mean to be a better woman from this day, so I do. And she asked God
to bless me, Mr. Anderson, she did, as she went away, because I meant
to be kind to her; and I did mean it, the blessed creature! And she
said good-by to you too, sir; and she knew you thought it was for her
good, only you didn't know what God meant. And I'm so glad, I'm so
glad!"

She stopped short, more surprised than she had ever been in her life;
for Edward Anderson was shaking her hand violently, and telling her
that she was a good woman, a very good woman indeed, and that he
thought the better of her, and had been thinking for some time of
raising her salary.




CHAPTER XI.

LIGHT.