"When I recall the worry I have given my poor old aunt, who loves me so, I feel like a contemptible scoundrel.

How many countless sacrifices has she made for me, in the days when we had nothing! But she shall have all the comforts now, and all the love and kindness I am capable of giving her.

I shall never leave her again." There were tears in Patty's eyes.

"It is never too late to mend; and when a man is penitent, truly and honestly penitent, much shall be forgiven him.

It is only those who are by nature coarse who do not eventually surmount temptation.