Shaw, holding her close, with a look that made Maud add, as she
laid her cheek against his own, "But I 'd do it, father, if you asked
me to, for I truly want to help."
"So do I!" cried Fanny, wondering at the same minute how it
would seem to wear turned silks, and clean her gloves.
Tom said nothing, but drew toward him a paper of figures which
his father had drawn up, and speedily reduced himself to the verge
of distraction by trying to understand them, in his ardent desire to
prove his willingness to put his shoulder to the wheel.
"We shall pull through, children, so don't borrow trouble, only be
ready for discomforts and annoyances. Put your pride in your
pockets, and remember poverty is n't disgraceful, but dishonesty
is."
Polly had always loved kind Mr. Shaw, but now she respected him
heartily, and felt that she had not done him justice when she
sometimes thought that he only cared for making money.
"I should n't wonder if this was a good thing for the whole family,
though it don't look so.
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