Bruey a little worker for Christ Author:Frances Ridley Havergal 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: CHAPTER III. WORK NEARER HOME. ON Monday morning Bruey stood brushing her hair in the dressing-room. The door between the two rooms stood open. Mrs Murray ... more »was mending a frock which had received some slight damage in a battle with Percy on Saturday evening, respecting Bruey's departure to bed, of which Percy by no means approved. There had been no great hurry, and Mrs Murray had not objected to ten minutes' play, Bruey's efforts to escape not being serious enough to put an end to what she enjoyed very much, till " O Percy, you have torn my gathers," made a truce expedient. " Mamma, when am I to have a new hat ?" Mrs Murray was rather surprised at the question : it was not a usual topic. " Why do you want a new one ? It is a very little while since Aunt Joseph gave you your best one, only when Percy came; and it is not like a dark, heavy, winter one. You certainly will not want anything done to it till quite summer, much less a new one." Bruey meditated. " What made you ask that ?" asked Mrs Murray, presently. " Mamma, would you mind ?—might I try?— I almost think I could—(if I might have a little velvet)—just trim it up fresh. " My dear child, what can you want to spoil that nice hat for ?" She was puzzled, both at the request and at Bruey's hesitating manner. Bruey laid down her brush and came forward. " I had better tell you exactly all about it, mamma. Miss Allison said something to me yesterday morning about its being a rule for the children not to wear flowers, and that it was better for the teachers to keep it too, else it made the children want to wear them." "Well?" " And so I thought, if you did not mind, Icould take the flowers off my hat myself, and you would give me a bit of velvet (it wouldn't want much), just for the front." Mrs ...« less