Brought out of peril

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
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I DON'T see why you should be so disagreeable about it, mother. It was my own ten shillings that I paid for the watch.
Watch, indeed! exclaimed her mother, as though the very word was an offence to her. What do you know about buying a watch?—a bit of a girl in her first place. You need all the money you can earn to keep you in decent clothes, to say nothing of what you owe me for all the things I have had to buy to make you tidy, and give you a fair start in service. And Mrs. Brown almost burst into tears as her eyes fell again on the glittering silver watch her daughter was so proud to display.
Fanny was a little over sixteen, a tall, well-grown girl for her age, stout and rosy, and looking the picture of health, as she stood there telling her mother her trial month was over, that her mistress was very well satisfied with the way she had done her work, and that she was to have six pounds a year at first, a whole day's holiday once a month, and every Sunday evening to go to church.
I am very glad to have that bit of news, Fanny, said her mother, in a more cheerful tone. But still, I wish you had left the watch alone. I don't believe in such finery for a girl like you.
Finery! repeated Fanny. Father has got a watch.
Yes, but your father's is for use, not to dangle round his neck like that glittering thing. You've got a clock in the kitchen at your place, haven't you? said her mother.
To be sure we have, said Fanny, with a toss of her head. But I'm not always in the kitchen, she added.
Well, my girl, I dare say we shall get over it but I do feel disappointed, for I wanted you to let me have all you could spare of your wages this month for Eliza.
For Eliza! repeated Fanny, changing colour a little. Is she ill again, mother? she asked.
No; she is better—very well for her. But Mrs. Parsons from the Vicarage came to see me yesterday, and asked if Eliza could go with the nurse and children to the seaside for a month. Our Vicar thought she might help to look after the children on the sands, and that the change would do her good too.