clothed her with my own apparel, and thus addressed her: “Sister, you are the elder, and I esteem you as my mother: during your absence, God has blest the portion that fell to my share, and the employment I follow of breeding silk-worms.
Assure yourself there is nothing I have but is at your service, and as much at your disposal as my own.”
We lived very comfortably together for some months. As we were one day conversing about our third sister,
clothed her with my own apparel, and thus addressed her: “Sister, you are the elder, and I esteem you as my mother: during your absence, God has blest the portion that fell to my share, and the employment I follow of breeding silk-worms.
Assure yourself there is nothing I have but is at your service, and as much at your disposal as my own.”
We lived very comfortably together for some months. As we were one day conversing about our third sister,
