"
About nine o'clock grandma Parlin came quietly into the room with a
lamp. A smile crept round the corners of her mouth, as she saw the
little girls sleeping so widely apart, their faces turned away from
each other.
"How is this?" said she, as the two bills caught her eye. "Of all the
foolish children! Dropping money about the room like waste paper!"
The light awoke Jennie, who had only just fallen asleep. "Now is the
time," said she to herself; and without waiting for a second thought,
which would have been a worse one, she sprang out of bed, and caught
Mrs. Parlin by the skirts.
"That money is yours, Mrs. Parlin," said she, bravely. "Yours; I found
it in the rag-bag. Something naughty came into me this morning, and
made me want to keep it; but I'm ever so sorry, and never'll do it
again. Will you forgive me?"
Then grandma Parlin seated herself in a rocking-chair, took Jennie
right into her lap, and talked to her a long while in the sweetest
way. Jennie curled her head into the good woman's neck, and sobbed
out all her wretchedness.
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