She turned as stiff and as grey as thou seest her now within a year of Hester's birth.

I believe they'd have perished for want and cold many a time if it had not been for John.

If she ever guessed where the money came from, it must have hurt her pride above a bit, for she was always a proud woman.

But mother's love is stronger than pride.' Philip fell to thinking; a generation ago something of the same kind had been going on as that which he was now living through, quick with hopes and fears.

A girl beloved by two--nay, those two so identical in occupation as he and Kinraid were--Rose identical even in character with what he knew of the specksioneer; a girl choosing the wrong lover, and suffering and soured all her life in consequence of her youth's mistake; was that to be Sylvia's lot ?--or, rather, was she not saved from it by the event of the impressment, and by the course of silence he himself had resolved upon?
Then he went on to wonder if the lives of one generation were but a repetition of the lives of those who had gone before, with no variation but from the internal cause that some had greater capacity for suffering than others.