That would make five pounds per family, and seven hundred for the church.' He dipped his pen in the ink, and, as I am a living man, Robert, he wrote me a cheque then and there for two thousand two hundred pounds.

I don't know what I said; I felt like a fool; I could not stammer out words with which to thank him.

All my troubles have been taken from my shoulders in an instant, and indeed, Robert, I can hardly realise it." "He must be a most charitable man." "Extraordinarily so.

And so unpretending.

One would think that it was I who was doing the favour and he who was the beggar.