For an annual rent of one hundred and fifty dollars, they suited themselves very well.

They waited, until the additional salary gave them the means of increasing their furniture in those particulars required, and then made the change.
The second comer was a boy, and they had him christened William.

As year after year was added to his young life, he grew into a gentle, fair-haired, sweet-tempered child, whose place upon his father's knee was never yielded even to his sister, on any occasion.

His ear was first to catch the sound of his father's approaching footsteps, and his voice the first to herald his coming.

This out-going of affection toward him, caused Mr.Bancroft to feel for little "Willy," as he was called, a peculiar tenderness, and gave to his voice a tone of music more pleasant than sounds struck from the sweetest instruments.
Year after year came and went, in ever varying succession, adding, every now and then, another and another to the number of Mr.
Bancroft's household treasures.