CHAPTER VII--THE COMET AND THE FIXED STAR
'I don't feel that I can part with Lisa now, just as she's beginning
to be a help to me,' argued Mrs. Grubb, shortly after she had been
welcomed and ensconced in a rocking-chair. 'As Madame Goldmarker
says, nobody else in the world would have given her a home these four
years, and a good many wouldn't have had her round the house.'
'That is true,' replied Mary, 'and your husband must have been a very
good man from all you tell me, Mrs. Grubb.'
'Good enough, but totally uninteresting,' said that lady laconically.
'Well, putting aside the question as to whether goodness ought to be
totally uninteresting, you say that Lisa's mother left Mr. Grubb
three hundred dollars for her food and clothing, and that she has
been ever since a willing servant, absolutely devoted to your
interests.'
'We never put a cent of the three hundred dollars into our own
pockets,' explained Mrs. Grubb. 'Mr. Grubb was dreadfully opposed to
my doing it, but every penny of it went to freeing our religious
society from debt. It was a case of the greatest good of the
greatest number, and I didn't flinch. I thought it was a good deal
more important that the Army of Present Perfection should have a roof
over its head than that Lisa Bennett should be fed and clothed; that
is, if both could not be done.
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