If I had only myself to think of, I should not feel the anxieties that now trouble me.

I could take a housekeeper's place to-morrow.

Yes! I was brought up among surroundings of luxury and refinement; I descended in rank when I married--but for all that, I could fill a domestic employment without repining my lot, without losing my self-respect.

Adversity is a hard teacher of sound lessons, David.

May I call you David?
And if you heard of a housekeeper's place vacant, would you tell me of it ?" I could hardly understand whether she was in jest or in earnest.