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Hand and Heart
by
Elizabeth Gaskell
Hand and Heart
“Mother, I should so like to have a great deal of money,” said little Tom Fletcher one evening, as he sat on a low stool by his mother's knee. His mother was knitting busily by the firelight, and they had both been silent for some time.
“What would you do with a great deal of money, if you had it?”
“Oh! I don't know—I would do a great many things. But should not you like to have a great deal of money, mother?” persisted he.
“Perhaps I should,” answered Mrs. Fletcher. “I am like you sometimes, dear, and think that I should be very glad of a little more money. But then I don't think I am like you in one thing, for I have always some little plan in my mind for which I should want the money. I never wish for it just for its own sake.”
“Why, mother! there are so many things we could do if we had but money—real good, wise things, I mean.”
“And if we have real good, wise things in our head to do, which cannot be done without money, I can quit . . .
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