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"I thought my allowance was only to dress on. If I'm to attend to
charities, too, you'll have to increase it."
"But," he argued patiently, "if you only sent them twenty-five
dollars, did without some little thing to do it, you'd feel rather
more as though you were giving, wouldn't you?"
"Twenty-five dollars! And be laughed at!"
He had given in then.
"If I put an extra thousand dollars to your account to-morrow, will
you check it out to this fund?"
"It's too much."
"Will you?'
"Yes, of course," she had agreed, indifferently. And he had notified
her that the money was in the bank. But two months later the list of
contributors was published, and neither his name nor Natalie's was
among them.
Toward personal service she had no inclination whatever. She would
promise anything, but the hour of fulfilling always found her with
something else to do. Yet she had kindly impulses, at times, when
something occurred to take her mind from herself. She gave liberally
to street mendicants.


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