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After breakfast the next morning, Jessie sat down to her work with a resolute will. Her _impulse_, was to spend the hours playing with Madge. But her purpose to act by rule was strong, and it conquered. Guy went out for the brown worsted, which her meeting with Madge, kept her from buying the previous evening. So giving her _protege_ a seat on a cricket by her side, she worked merrily, and with nimble fingers, on her uncle's slippers. The tongues of the two girls, you may be sure, were as nimble as Jessie's fingers.
While they were thus happily employed, Uncle Morris was out, looking after the young outcast's mother.