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during these stormy days; in manufacturing out of the old clothes
that had been given her, some articles of dress that
would be acceptable to Becky. She retained
the coarsest and most worn for her infant and from the finest and best, made
some neat caps, which while they gratified the vanity, pacified the
ill humour of her hostess. "Rarely now miss Lucy, that is quite
gentill and I shan't be ashamed to go to methodist- meeting now I have
such a nice cap," said Becky as she tried it on and looked at herself
in the bit of broken looking-glass that was stuck in the wall. Little
sacrifices of this kind, Lucy thought more than repaid, by a kind word
or look, which at this time were so necessary to her sinking spirits
that before the long storm was over she had stripped herself
of the greatest part of the loathing designed for herself and child, and had
not the return of good weather released her from this species of
imprisonment, she would in a few more days have been as
destitute as ever. But the clouds broke away; the snow ceased
to fall; and a bright warm sun burst forth to liberate
and cheer the dispirited Lucy. She could not be insensible
to the renovation