Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXIII. CLEAR SHINING AFTER RAIN. Clayton had occasion to visit New York on business. He never went without carrying some token of remembrance from the friends in his settlement to Milly; now, indeed, far advanced in years, while, in the expressive words of Scripture, 'Her eye was not dim, nor her natural force abated.' He found her in a neat little tenement in one of the outer streets of New York, surrounded by about a dozen children, among whom were blacks, whites, and foreigners. These (she rescued from utter destitution in the streets, and was giving to them all the attention and affection of a mother. 'Why, bless you, sir, ' she said to Clayton, pleasantly, as she opened the door, ' it's good to see you once more; how's Miss Anne?' 'Very well, Milly. She sent you this little packet, and you will find something from Harry and Lisette, and all the rest of your friends in our settlement. Ah are these all your children, Milly?' 'Yes, honey--mine and de Lord's; dis yer's my second dozen; de fust is all in good places and doing well--I keeps my eye on 'em, and goes round to see after 'em a little now and then.' 'And bow is Tomtit?' 'Oh, Tomtit's doing beautiful, thankee, sir. He's 'come a Christian and joined the Church, and dey has him to wait and 'tend at the Anti-Slavery office, and he does well.' 'I see you have black and white here, ' said Clayton, glancing around the circle. 'Laws, yes, ' said Milly, looking complacently around, 'I don't make no distinction of colour, I don't believe in them; white children, when dey 'haves themselves is just as good as black, and I loves 'em just as well.' 'Don't you sometimes think it a little hard yon should have to work so in your old age?' 'Why, bless you, honey, no. I takes heaps of comfort of my money as I goes along. Dere's heaps .