Chapter 12 A YOUNG ARTIST'S EXPERIENCE.

Rose respected Hester Jennings. She could not help respecting her-a creature so much in earnest, so indefatigably industrious, so indifferent to all the distractions of the outer world which might have taken her out of herself and away from her work, while she was not above three or four years Rose's senior. If Hester would have let her, the respec