“Some of`em came to our house, I know,” said Miss Binson. “She`d lake a lot o` trouble to please a child, `stead o` shoving of it out o` the way, like the rest of us when we`re drove.
“I can tell you the biggest thing she ever done, and I don`t know`s (here`s anybody left but me to tell it. I don`t want it forgot,” Sarah flinson went on, looking up at the clock to see how the night was going. “It was that pretty-looking Trevor girl, who taught the Corners school, and married so well afterwards, out in New York State. You remember her, I dare say?”
“Certain,” said Mrs. Crowe, with an air of interest.
“She was a splendid scholar, folks said, and give the school a great start; but she`d overdone herself getting her education, and working to pay for it, and she all broke down one spring, and Tempy made her come and stop with her a while you remember that? Well, she had an uncle, her mother`s brother, out in Chicago, who was well off and friendly, and used to write to Lizzie Trevor, and I dare say make her some presents; but he was a lively, driving man, and didn`t take time lo stop and think about his folks. He hadn`t seen her since she was a little girl. Poor Lizzie was so pale and weakly that she just got through (he term o` school. She looked as if she was just going straight off in a decline.
Visit Niagary
Tempy, she cosseted her up a while, and then, next thing folks knew, she was tellin` round how Miss Trevor had gone to see her uncle, and meant to visit Niagary Falls on the way, and stop over night. Now I happened to know, in ways I won`t dwell on to explain, that the poor girl was in debt for her schoolin` when she come here, and her last quarter`s pay had just squared it off at last, and left her without cent ahead, hardly; but it had fretted her thinking of it, so she pai it all; those might have dunned her that she owed it to. An` I tax Tempy about the girl`s goin` off on such a journey till she owned u rather`n have Lizzie blamed, that she`d given her sixty dollars, same` if she was rolling in riches, and sent her off to have a good rest an vacation.”
“Sixty dollars!” exclaimed Mrs. Crowe. “Tempy only had nine’ dollars a year that came in to her; rest of her living she got by help about, with what she raised off this little piece o` ground, sand on side an` clay the other. An` how often I`ve heard her tell, years ag~ that she`d rather see Niagary than any other sight in the world!”
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