"By no means, my dear—I should be much pleased that you and Alice should have necklaces alike."
"But I do not want a necklace, sir, and should feel very badly to spend fifty dollars on a useless ornament."
"Then purchase something else with it, Margarette."
"I am in want of nothing, sir, and had much rather restore it to you."
"Can you find no use for it, my dear?" asked Mr. Claremont.
"O yes, sir—I could find enough to do with this, and ten times more. But perhaps you would think it injudiciously expended."
"What should you do with it, Margarette?" asked Mr. Claremont.
"Give every cent of it away, sir," Margarette replied.
"Very well," said Mr. Claremont. "It is yours, my dear, to throw at the birds, if you please. I can depend on your judgment and principles, that it will not go to indulge idleness or vice."
"O, I thank you most sincerely, my dear uncle," said Margarette with warmth—"in behalf of those who are suffering from want. It will give me great delight to be your almoner."