Bessie Bradford’s Prize

Seems as if it was a callin’ of Providence, she murmured to herself, as she slowly and thoughtfully mounted the stairs and returned to the nursery; and had any one known the circumstances he might have seen that the old nurse’s resolution respecting that gold was wavering; seems as if it was a callin’ of Providence. ‘Twould just be a little more than the poor boy needs–oh, will he never learn to say no when it’s befittin 'he should!–just a little more, and it do seem as if it were put hinto my 'ands to do it.