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what the world was like. How could
she, being only six years old, and never
having seen anything of it except that
tinv section called the home?
This little Peggy had a remarkably
lovely face, an active mind, a patient
spirit, and a healthy body. She was to
start in life as a servant in the house of'
a livery stable keeper, whose wife took
lodgers, which is not, on the whole, a
very elevated position in the world.
The place was not such a one as her
friends at the asylum had wished for
her; but she was getting on in years,
at least as an inmate of that particular
institution, where the children rarely
remained after the age of five. More
over, it was promised that she should
go to school* and be decently brought
up; and who could know that these
promises were not to be fulfilled?
