"
The door closed upon the landlord, leaving behind two anxious
hearts.
"It looks well in him to wish that," said the cooper, gloomily. "A
great deal he is doing to make it so. I don't know how it seems to
others, but for my part I never say them words to any one unless I
really wish 'em well, and am willing to do something to make 'em so.
I should feel as if I was a hypocrite if I acted anyways different."
Mary did not respond to this. In her own gentle heart she could not
help feeling a silent repugnance, mingled, it may be, with a shade
of contempt, for the man who had just left them. It was an
uncomfortable feeling, and she strove to get rid of it."
"Is there any tenement vacant in this neighborhood?" she asked.
"Yes, there's the one at the corner, belonging to Mr. Harrison."
"It is a better one than this."
"Yes, but Harrison only asks the same that we have been paying. He
is not so exorbitant as Colman."
"Couldn't we get that?"
"I am afraid, if he knew that we had failed to pay our rent here, he
would object."
"But he knows you are honest, and that nothing but the hard times
would have brought you to such a pass."
"It may be, Mary. At any rate you have lightened my heart a little.
I feel as if there was some hope left."
"We ought always to feel so, Timothy. There was one thing that Mr.
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