appealingly.

Petheridge Jukesbury had at divers times pointed out to her the evils

of promiscuous charity, and these dicta Margaret parroted glibly

enough, to do her justice, so long as there was no immediate question

of dispensing alms. But for all that the next whining beggar would

move her tender heart, his glib inventions playing upon it like a

fiddle, and she would give as recklessly as though there were no

such things in the whole wide world as soup-kitchens and organised

charities and common-sense. "Because, you know," she would afterward

salve her conscience, "I