'I am not ashamed of my position at all; for I am John's widow in the eyes of Heaven.' 'I quite agree--that's why I've come.

Still, you won't like to be always straining at this shop-keeping and market-standing; and 'twould be better for Johnny if you had nothing to do but tend him.' He here touched the only weak spot in Selina's resistance to his proposal--the good of the boy.

To promote that there were other men she might have married offhand without loving them if they had asked her to; but though she had known the worthy speaker from her youth, she could not for the moment fancy herself happy as Mrs.Miller.
He paused awhile.

'I ought to tell 'ee, Mrs.Clark,' he said by and by, 'that marrying is getting to be a pressing question with me.

Not on my own account at all.