But they are rich, and we are poor still!' The greater part of a year was desultorily spent.

She moved sadly about the house and shop, and the boys were still occupying themselves in and around the harbour.
'Joanna,' he said, one day, 'I see by your movements that it is not enough.' 'It is not enough,' said she.

'My boys will have to live by steering the ships that the Lesters own; and I was once above her!' Jolliffe was not an argumentative man, and he only murmured that he thought he would make another voyage.
He meditated for several days, and coming home from the quay one afternoon said suddenly: 'I could do it for 'ee, dear, in one more trip, for certain, if--if--' 'Do what, Shadrach ?' 'Enable 'ee to count by thousands instead of hundreds.' 'If what ?' 'If I might take the boys.' She turned pale.
'Don't say that, Shadrach,' she answered hastily.
'Why ?' 'I don't like to hear it! There's danger at sea.

I want them to be something genteel, and no danger to them.

I couldn't let them risk their lives at sea.