I've been a mother to her, an' a good mother--though I say it myself--these six years or more.

I look on her now as a child o' my own.

I don't know who you may be, mister.

P'r'aps you've come from abroad ?' 'Yes, I have.

There's no reason why I shouldn't tell you that I'm trying to find any of my kin that are still alive, There was a married son of mine that once lived somewhere about here.