He has lost his property, and is now in great trouble.

He is, in fact, struggling hard to keep his head above water: my weight might sink him.

But, even if there were no danger of this, so long as I am able to sustain myself, I will not cling to him while he is tossed on the waves of adversity." "I cannot but highly approve your decision," said Mrs.Carlton, her heart warm with admiration for the right-minded girl.

"The fact that your uncle has been compelled to give up his elegant house, and retire with you to a boarding-house, shows the extremity to which he has been reduced.

I understand that his fine business is entirely broken up, and that, burdened with debts, he has commenced the world again, a few hundred dollars all his capital in trade, resolved, if health and a sound mind be continued to him, to rise above all his present difficulties." "And shall I," replied Jessie, "sit an idle witness of the honourable struggle, content to burden him with my support?
No! Were I of such a spirit, I would be unworthy the relation I bear him.