I'll write to the old man, and
tell him that as Dora is now fifteen, we would gladly send her
away to school, if we had the means, but our expenses are so great
it is impossible, unless the money comes from him. And he'll do it
too, the old miser!--for in his first letter he said he would
increase the allowance as Dora grew older."
Suiting the action to the word, she drew out her writing-desk, and
commenced a letter to her "dearest Uncle Nathaniel," feelingly
describing to him their straitened circumstances, and the efforts
of herself and her sister to keep the family in _necessaries_,
which they were enabled to do very comfortably with the addition
of the allowance he so generously sent them every year. But
they wished now to send Dora to school, to see if anything
could be made of her! She had improved latterly, and they
really hoped a change of scene would benefit her. For Dora's sake,
then, would "her dear uncle be so kind as to send them, on the
receipt of that letter, such a sum as he thought best. If so, he
would greatly oblige his loving niece.
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