You have nothing to gain, nothing to expect but the things that make me shudder.

And I have thought of myself alone, selfishly, unreasonably.
It is not fair, and yet this is the only way that it can be." "I am satisfied," he said.

"I have nothing much to sacrifice, except myself." She leaned forward, with her chin in the cup of her hands, and looked at him steadily.
"You have people ?" "None who cares for me.

My mother was the last.

She died before I came North." "And you have no sisters--or brothers ?" "None living." For a moment she was silent.