As her opportunities to be good and do good were increased, so was her liability to do wrong.

She had her faults, great, grave faults, but she was truly endeavoring to overcome them.
Tommy had returned from his voyage to Liverpool, and joyous was the meeting between Katy and her sailor friend.

It took him all the evenings for a week to tell the story of his voyage, to which Mrs.
Redburn and her daughter listened with much satisfaction.

He remained at home two months, and then departed on a voyage to the East Indies.
Master Simon Sneed, after Katy's attempt to serve him, did not tell her many more large stories about himself, for she understood him now, and knew that he was not half so great a man as he pretended to be.

In the spring he obtained a situation in a small retail store where there was not a very wide field for the exercise of his splendid abilities.