For now it was clear that I had no choice but to stay where I was for the present, and be truly thankful to God and man for having the chance of doing so.

For the little relics of my affairs--so far as I had any--had taken much time in arrangement, perhaps because it was so hard to find them.

I knew nothing, except about my own little common wardrobe, and could give no information about the contents of my father's packages.

But these, by dint of perseverance on the part of Ephraim (who was very keen about all rights), had mainly been recovered, and Mr.Gundry had done the best that could be done concerning them.

Whatever seemed of a private nature, or likely to prove important, had been brought home to Blue River Mills; the rest had been sold, and had fetched large prices, unless Mr.Gundry enlarged them.
He more than enlarged, he multiplied them, as I found out long afterward, to make me think myself rich and grand, while a beggar upon his bounty.