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Burt remarked . `` Well , do n't be discouraged . It 's a fault that will mend every day , '' she replied , with a smile that was so arch and genial that he mentally assured himself that he never would be disheartened in his growing purpose to make Amy more than a sister . One winter noon Leonard returned from his superintendence of the wood-cutting in the mountains . At the dinner-table be remarked : `` I have heard to-day that the Lumley family are in great destitution , as usual . It is useless to help them , and yet one can not sit down to a dinner like this in comfort while even the Lumleys are hungry . '' `` Hunger is their one good trait , '' said Webb .