The salary was only a thousand dollars, but he was glad to get that.
So serious a reduction in his income made some reduction in existing expenses necessary.

This was attained, in part, by removing into a house for which a rent of only two hundred dollars, instead of three, was paid.
Still the parents trembled for their children, and were filled with alarm if the slightest indisposition appeared.

A few months passed and again the hand of sickness was laid upon the family of Mr.
Bancroft.

Mary and Kate and little Harry were all taken with the fatal disease that had stricken down Flora and William in the freshness of youth and beauty.

The father, as he bent over his desk had felt all day an unusual depression of spirits.