"And it was through him I found you." "Found me ?" "It'll seem very strange, what I have to tell you .-- You were a little girl when I saw you last, and you refused to come with me.

Had you any idea why I asked you ?" "I hadn't then." "But you have thought of it since ?" Ida looked at him sternly, and turned her eyes away again.

The belief that he was her father had always increased the resentment with which she recalled his face.
"I am your grandfather," Abraham said gravely.

"Your mother was my daughter." A change came over her countenance; she gazed at him with wonder.
"Who did you think I was ?" he asked.
She hesitated for a moment, then, instead of replying, said: "You behaved cruelly to my poor mother." "I won't deny it," the old man returned, mastering his voice with difficulty.

"I ought to have been more patient with her.