She felt that she could not go to him and ask him for bread.

One other resource she had.

There remained to her of her mother's property a necklace, which was all that was left to her from her mother.

And when this had been given to her at her mother's death, she had been specially enjoined not to part with it.

Her father then had been too deeply plunged in grief to say any words on such a subject, and the gift had been put into her hands by her aunt Sophie.