What I mean to say is this, Chaffey's is not what it used to be.

But I have laid by, and when it comes to the solemn hour then Mr.Walker has promised to make my will.

All I want to say is that there may be more than you think for and if you are respectable I think it most likely all will be yours.

But listen to this, if you disgrace yourself, my girl, not one halfpenny nor yet one sixpenny piece will you receive from "Your affectionate father "EBENEZER SPARKES "P.S .-- This is wrote in a very serious mind." This epistle at once pleased and angered Polly.

Though a greedy she was not a mercenary young woman; she had little cunning, and her vulgar ambitions were consistent with a good deal of honest feeling.