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I think she made us feel--she certainly made me feel--that our
lot was in many ways an unusually fortunate one, and full of
responsibilities. She herself was always thinking what she could
do for others, not only immediately about her, but in the
farthest corners of the earth. She had her Sabbath-school class,
and visited all the children in it: she sat up all night, very
often, watching by a sick girl's bed, in the hospital or in some
distant boarding-house; she gave money to send to missionaries,
or to help build new churches in the city, when she was earning
only eight or ten dollars a month clear of her board, and could
afford herself but one "best dress," besides her working clothes.
That best dress was often nothing but a Merrimack print. But she
insisted that it was a great saving of trouble to have just this
one, because she was not obliged to think what she should wear if
she were invited out to spend an evening. And she kept track of
all the great philanthropic movements of the day.
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