Work and Wagesor Life in Service Author:Mary Botham Howitt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: he, "even if she be honest herself, she may be the dupe of the designing—you never can feel safe while she is in the house. Of course you must do what you think ... more »best, my dear Miss Cotterill," said she, tying her bonnet-strings preparatory to departing; " but my advice is—get rid of her!" " Well, I'm sure we are exceedingly obliged to you," said both the Miss Cotterills; "and we shall certainly follow your advice. Mrs. Harper can come and be with us till we get suited; and this huzzy, with her deformed sisters and young shoemaker boys, may go about her own business !" CHAPTER III. A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. " Well, I do declare !" exclaimed Mrs. Griffiths that evening, as, while she sate seaming stockings by candlelight, she saw Jane Ford enter her room. " Why, sure you have not left your place!" added she, as Jane set her bonnet-box down on the floor, and a bundle on the dresser. " Yes, I have, though," said Jane, who had evidently been crying. " Oh dear, dear! so as I tried to please! Eo as I wished to please, and to have stopped, at least, my year out!—but it's no manner of use fretting." " Well but, Jane dear!" said kind Mrs. Griffiths, laying down her work, and raising her spectacles from her nose to her forehead, " I don't understand this!" " Can Mark fetch my boxes to-night?" asked Jane, without giving the explanation her friend required; 'and will you let me stop here a night or two? Oh, Mark!" exclaimed Jane, in the next breath, as that roulh, in his smith's apron, and with his hands andface black from the forge—for Mark was a frame- smith—entered the room, "can you fetch me my two boxes from the Miss Cotterills ?—the sooner the better, Mark." "Why, bless me!" exclaimed Mark, in as much astonishment as his mother, "have you left your place ?" " How...« less