"
"Poor girl, how sorry I am for her! blindness must be so terrible," Lucy
remarked to her friend after the doctor had gone.
"Yes," Elsie answered thoughtfully, "but I do not give up hope for her
yet."
"Dr. Morton is considered very skilful."
"Still he may be mistaken, and I shall not rest till I have made every
effort to save her sight."
Little Elsie and her sister had already become deeply interested in poor
Sally, and were laying plans to help her.
"What can we do, Elsie?" queried Vi, in an under tone, drawing her sister
aside.
"She'll want clothes; she had on a very old faded calico dress."
"And not a bow or pin; just an old linen collar around her neck," remarked
Gertrude, joining them; "and her dress was ever so old-fashioned and
patched besides."
"Let's put our pocket money together, and buy her a new dress," proposed
Vi.
"And make it for her," added Elsie; "it hurts her eyes to sew, and you
know Dinah could fit it. Mamma had her taught the trade, and says she fits
and sews very nicely."
"Oh, what's the use of giving our money?" exclaimed Gertrude, impatiently.
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