Atelier [1916] . n with all its charm. Eight oclock came and went, and she knew that Mrs. Lawrences maidhad probably come for the dress and gone away with the note explaining, whyit could not be finished. The tears were refusing to be kept back, when she no-ticed that the sick woman was breathing heavily and that her lips were blue. Shehastened to give the medicine from the little brown bottle, and sat down anx-iously to await the result. The lips were becoming less blue and the breathingless labored when Mrs. Finnegan returned, and told her that Mrs. Brown hadlooked just that way when she was


Atelier [1916] . n with all its charm. Eight oclock came and went, and she knew that Mrs. Lawrences maidhad probably come for the dress and gone away with the note explaining, whyit could not be finished. The tears were refusing to be kept back, when she no-ticed that the sick woman was breathing heavily and that her lips were blue. Shehastened to give the medicine from the little brown bottle, and sat down anx-iously to await the result. The lips were becoming less blue and the breathingless labored when Mrs. Finnegan returned, and told her that Mrs. Brown hadlooked just that way when she was recovering from an attack in the afternoon. 52 Faith, an it was sure a good thing ye was here, for the doctor says oneattack like that alone and shes gone. The girl caught her breath in a glad littlesob and the good Irish woman wondered to see her walking away with her eyesmisty and shining happily. But then, thought she, Miss Ellis was always justa weeny bit different from the rest of us. —Charlotte Perry, 16. 53


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